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Benjy looking serious...
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Monday, July 21, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
White Friday - July 18, 2008
May Olorun, Olofi, Olodumare, Egun and Orisa grant us the grace to be a vehicle for their ase, so there can be a positive transformation in the lives of those in need.
We pray on this Friday, the third in July, for the improvement on the health and spiritual strength of these people:
A special prayer for:
Babalawo Ifagbemi Olomide Ogunlano, he has had radiation for Prostate Cancer and Cancer of the throat.
Please pray for James Broxton's full recovery and we ask that he be guided to the feet of Orunmila.
Iya Orisade Awodola and family who lost her brother suddenly to undiagnosed leukemia.
Suffering from:
Alzheimers:
Lilly-May Oliver is suffering from Alzheimers and is in critical condition.
Brain Surgery:
Please pray for St. Clair Bourne, friend of Margaret Pulley
Glaucoma and advanced Macular Degeneration:
Maria Junqueira (Maria d'Osala)
Schizophrenia:
Joshua O'Connor
Suffering from uncontrolled anger and rage:
Margaret Pulley (grandaughter)
Pedestrian hit by car:
Davia Calvin
Rare Pulmonary Infection:
Andres Torres
Heart condition:
Reynaldo Aparicio, who is doing much better, we thank the Orishas.
Stroke:
Delores Dunigan; May her recovery be swift and without any damage.
Recovering from masectomy, may she remain cancer free:
Florence McGaw
Nervous system, depression, mental disorders:
Jackie Velazquez
Gabby Velasquez
Zhen Wu
Kymberlei Washington
Kidney Conditions:
Jose Galan
Brielle Perera
Eye or vision problems:
Iyalorisha Maria Junqueiro de Oxala
Ossidosis, blood clots:
William Eric Perkins
Kidney, Intestines and spine illness:
Junior Miranda
Paralysis of the stomach:
Esiquio Claustro
Myasthenia Gravis:
Roberto Bolouffer, Ogunda Leni, Omo Odu
Stage 4 Mantle Cell Lymphoma and pneumonia:
James Reid
Surgery:
Irma Baez
Back surgery:
Maray Lopez
Depression, mental illnesses:
Kimberlei Washington
Victim of violence:
Jeffrey Acevedo Jr
Joseph Acevedo
Heart attack, Alzheimer's and Serious Pulmonary Issues:
Leda Pieroni
Elevation for the spirit:
Dr. Asa Hillard, ibaye
Spiritual strength:
Friends and Family of James Broxton
Melissa
Baby girl Summer Arthur-Charles' family
Marilyn Velasquez
Iya Ifalade TaShia Asanti
Violaine Esnault
Maria D'Osala
Miguel and Yuleiska Torres
Baba Oloyu
Iya Adeola Karade for healing and spiritual strength
Iya Omoalade
Margaret Pulley
Baby girl Summer Arthur-Charles - Who was born three months early and is currently suffering from bleeding of the brain.
Praying for the elevation of these spirits, ibae layen tonu, may they reach the light of Olodumare:
St. Clair Bourne
Marie Esnault
Beatriz Rodriguez “Ade Osun”
Keith Martini, "Oshunguere" who passed in his sleep
Baba Medahochi, KweYao Agyapon
Special prayers for all the children and young adults.
Please keep them safe and innocent.
Shield them from predators of mind and body.
Protect them from violence and negative influences
Help them find the right path.
Keep them healthy of mind, body and soul.
Heal the children that are sick, or don't let them suffer.
Guide them so they become adults of faith, wise and compassionate.
Help parents take the right decisions and ease the weight on those that are burdened with worries and grief.
Help those that are already in the wrong path mend their lives and find faith.
Elevate the spirits of those that have died before their time and bring peace to their families.
Save our children, because they will be our future.
We pray for all those that have transgressed against us, and we pray for all those we have transgressed against; that we may heal and move above our faults, opinions and weaknesses toward a better understanding of self and God.
Let’s keep our Servicemen and Women in our prayers; these brave young men and women are being redeployed, and even those with injuries are being sent back. Lets pray they comeback home to there families and that they heal both physically and mentally.
Special prayers to the Mothers, to take pity on their children and give us the opportunity to change. Yemaya, Oya, Oshun, we beg you.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Vindication???
Hmmm....
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 14, 2008
AFAC apparently claims to be a "for profit" organization offering "consulting" and "licensing of copyrighted intellectual property".
AFRA, a non profit ASSOCIATION of family rights advocates, interested individuals, and CPS victims, clearly has NEVER, and does NOT desire or intend to "compete" with AFAC.
Both AFRA member advocacy groups and non-member advocacy groups are perfectly free to operate on their own.
AFRA does NOT impose in any way on any family rights advocate, beyond the suspension of their AFRA membership if they commit egregious or unprofessional acts that injure clients or behavior that reflects poorly on AFRA. Even such suspended members are NOT "pursued", harassed, or defamed, or made victim of a character assassination.
If independent advocates WANT help from AFRA, we will provide what we can and only what we are asked to provide.
Stated as clearly and as succinctly as possible, AFRA, being an ASSOCIATION of family advocates, does NOT, and will never "compete" with any "family advocate" organization or individual, AFRA member or not, in any way, shape, or form.
American Family Rights Association
http://familyrights.us
Tags: Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez, AFRA, family rights, twitter, cyber-dissident, tarot cards, psychic, DFACS, Georgia, politics
Thursday, June 05, 2008
A number of times this season I have been bitten by large numbers of fire ants, which I'm allergic to. As happened once before this has caused scalded skin syndrome (also known as Ritter's disease). The previous time, at age 3, every bit of my skin just came off. This was in the early 70's when toxic reactions like this were not completely understood. I almost died while various doctors tried to figure out what was wrong with me. Luckily my mother was only briefly suspected of burning me herself, so we didn't have to go through accusations and separation.
I'm not totally out of commission but have low grade fever and really unpleasant body aches, not to mention pain from the burns. Nothing life threatening at all this time around. The reason I'm writing about this in such detail is because of the misdiagnosis/child abuse accusation angle.
I'd like everyone who is or would like to be involved in Family Advocacy to know that this is a condition most common in children pre-school age or younger. (But since I already had it, I win again.) Scalded skin syndrome is often mistaken for child abuse, as there are actual burns on the body and nobody believes at first it had anything to do with insect bites - basically you burn from the inside out.
It's not uncommon for the parent to be unable to pinpoint the onset...to use myself as an example: I was bitten almost constantly over a period of time, scratched and cussed, and didn't suspect anything worse until I started to see the burns. It's important to lead the parent gently backwards to pinpoint the exposure - this is important in the case of an accusation. Parents need to insist that their child be tested, and advocates and others can be a great source of support to the whole family.
Tags: Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez, AFRA, family rights, DFACS, Georgia, fire ants, scalded skin syndrome, child abuse, burn
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Pakistan's Punjab province limits wedding feasts
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Friday, May 09, 2008
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Responses to my 4/24 letter to the editor
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/042408/let_196159.shtml
The images we have all seen of the families involved in the Texas polygamy case are disturbing. It doesn't matter where one's opinion lies -- the whole situation is simply disturbing.
I would not agree to live in a plural marriage, no matter how often my husband jokes about finding another wife. But I do believe that people should be able to choose their lifestyles. I am strongly in favor of changing our marriage laws to provide gays and lesbians the chance to marry. In my mind, polygamy is not all that different as long as the marriage partners are consenting adults.
Unfortunately, at issue in the Texas case is not only freedom of association, but accusations that children are forced into arranged marriages. It is interesting to note that Child Protective Services in Texas decided that accusations of teen girls being forced to marry justified the detention of more than 400 children, some of them infants . According to CPS' own information, 90 percent of the children detained were in no imminent danger. It is for this reason that I'm crying "foul."
Over the past decade, I have seen some extraordinary silliness in CPS cases, usually perpetrated on families who are ill-equipped to fight back. If you stand by and say nothing as multiple families are torn apart, then you may find yourself on the receiving end of the same bitter medicine with no one to speak out for you.
Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez, Augusta
At this point, no abuse has been proven in court. Child Protective Services (CPS) are using the "risk of harm" argument as justification for detaining all of the children.
Also, I disagree with your basic premise that all children are sexually abused just because a sibling is.
If you remove the victim and leave the others in the home, then there is a new victim. (The caps are for emphasis, not shouting).
As I stated above I disagree with your basic premise.
The Texas authorities have acted in the best interest of the children and have not only legally, but rightfully, removed any potential victim.
Actually, it is not lawful to remove a "potential" victim. Federal law requires that "reasonable efforts" (Congress's words, not mine) be made before detaining a child away from his or her home. Reasonable efforts must also be made to make it possible for a detained child to be released.
The reason the "parents" are lying is because they know and understand that they have broken the laws regarding overt sexual behavior towards a child.
Where have the parents lied?
Those "men" are nothing more than perverted pedophiles who, if living in any other city or town, would have been arrested and prosecuted. The men who fathered these children have left the area in order to circumvent the law. Arizona and Colorado would do well by raiding those FLDS compounds.
Then how do you explain the presence of all those men still at the ranch?
Also, are you saying that anyone who has sexual relations with a girl under the age of 18 is a pedophile? Young people have sex all the time, often VERY casually. It seems to me like you're taking a single kumquat and trying to split it in half and then call it an apple and an orange.
How would you like it if your 13 year old was impregnated by your pastor because he believed he is "spiritually authorized by God?" Some of these children are now products of incest, which is also against the law.l Imagine the medical problems they will develop in the future.
I don't think my just turned fourteen year old would sit still long enough for anybody to impregnate him.
Seriously, we are talking about arranged marriages as part of an alternative lifestyle. Sure, I'd take issue about ANYBODY being forced into any marriage. But as far as I understand the situation in Texas, we don't know for sure that this is the case.
Time will tell.
Tags: Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez, AFRA, family rights, twitter, cyber-dissident, tarot cards, psychic, DFACS, Georgia, politics, Texas, polygamy, CPS
Saturday, May 03, 2008
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Notice From Jack Stratton
On March 16, 2008 WBT talk show host Jeff Katz had my opponent Sue Myrick on his show from 5-6 p.m without giving our campagn equal time.
On April 17, 2008 Katz again had Myrick on his show without giving our campaign equal time.
Katz and WBT are in violation of federal election law (47 USC § 15).
On April 29, 2008 I faxed a NOTICE AND DEMAND to Greater Media, Inc., the parent corporation of WBT. I advised them to cease and desist from their violation of federal law.
Greater Media ignored my demand and continued to violate federal law.
Yesterday, April 30, 2008, I sent an overnight express, certified mail, to Greater Media, Inc. advising them that their continued violation of federal law would not be tolerated and that they were jointly and severally liable. They received the certified complaint and demand no later than 12:00 p.m. today, April 30, 2008.
At approximately 3:30 p.m. today, April 30, 2008, my wife received a phone call from a Mr. East at WBT. Mr. East stated that WBT would put us on the Jeff Katz show from 4-5 p.m. on Friday, April 2, 2008 or on Monday April 5 from 4-5 p.m.
Perhaps WBT and Jeff Katz should have heeded the words of one of their talk show hosts, John Hancock:
"...if they have taken advantage of this family and they thought they were just going to railroad this dumb putz, they found out they picked the wrong guy, and this dumb putz isn't a dumb putz."
We are currently contemplating our legal options. One thing is certain: Jack Stratton knows how to get things done. Look for us tomorrow or Monday on WBT.
Jack"
Tags: Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez, AFRA, family rights, twitter, cyber-dissident, tarot cards, psychic, DFACS, Georgia, politics, Jack Stratton, Sue Myrick, North Carolina, DSS, radio, federal election law
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Recording conversations, and other interactions with idiots.
It all started early this morning when I responded to a post on the Child Protection Reform Yahoo, Group.
The post I made had to do with the laws governing recording conversations and the various state laws. I responded to this post with the following:
- It's important to remember that an argument can be made that
government employees do not have the same expectation of privacy that
would apply to private citizens.
I have seen families get away with hidden taping in "all party states"
by using this argument.
I am not an attorney and this is not legal advice, just an observation.
Dorothy
Then out of the blue, here comes Suzanne "I invented Family Advocacy and own copyrights to everything up to and including the Bible" Shell making this comment on her group:
- I am not a member of child protection reform - my request was denied - so I will respond here to the message posted by D Baez (Your request was probably denied because you have a tendency to be disruptive, and basically rude and obnoxious. We've been over this before when I had to deny you membership in a group I moderate. -DKB)
Yes, after I researched the issue and found that public servants have no expectation of privacy in the performance of their duties, I wrote and published a Memorandum of Law Documenting (Recording) Public Officials on her web site which clearly details the reasons why you can record a case worker without notifying them regardless of the wiretapping or recording laws. (Never read it, sorry. The world doesn't revolve around you. Get over it. - DKB)
Thank you so much, Ms. Baez, for providing another sterling example why I stopped freely publishing my work online, because of YOUR propensity, and AFRA's insistence on claiming credit for work you did not do and/or for not attributing credit where it is due. (This is where Shell accuses me of theft. -DKB)
Suzanne.
I have reproduced that message here:
- Jane, Suzanne Shell is claiming that I stole something she wrote about
taping government agents. I didn't know until just now that she
claims to have originated this idea. My own recollection of Shell's
statements on taping are that suggested quite a different method.
Actually, my interest in exceptions to taping laws began as much of my
advocacy strategies do - by the seat of my pants. I had a mom who
taped a police officer in an all party state and was threatened with
arrest. On the spur of the moment, I had to speak with a supervisor
and explain why this mom shouldn't be arrested. I used the "public
official does not have an expectation of privacy" argument. It
worked. Then, once I caught my breath, I did the research to back it
up. This was a really long time ago, before I quit even talking to
families if they weren't in Georgia - therefore according to my
memory, this would have had to be pre-2001.
Thanks for reading this. If it's alright with you, I'd like to post
just the second paragraph of this email to your group.
Dorothy
Only a few minutes later, Shell was responding.
- First,
I don't see where anybody, much less me, claimed you 'stole' anything.
I suggest you invest in a reading comprehension course to clear up the
misinterpretations you are forwarding to yourgroup. (Yes
you did. You seem to
be the one with the reading comprehension problem. -DKB)
Second, naturally, you will have certifiable and forensically provable unaltered documentation of your priority claim to this other than your "memory." I have a forensic expert standing by to analyze your contribution and mine. Mine , of course, resides in the U.S. Copyright office which, incidentally, supersedes any unreliable and non-documented "memory" claim you are attempting to foist on the unsuspecting public. And, should that proof fail to convince, naturally, we can resort to dueling file creation dates and email dates proving the earliest creation dates. (Oh, blah blah blah. I stand by my statements. Considering your behavior these past several years, I think I'll count on being the one who is more credible. Why don't you sue me? Seriously. -DKB)
Care to take me on - here on this group? Or are you wiling to concede and properly attribute the source of that concept and document to the rightful author? I would suspect, not. True to your nature, you will take your complaint behind my back and dare not attempt to prove it here. That is your MO, isn't it?
(There's nothing to concede. I have no obligation to join your little group. I'll say what I have to say publicly and on a setting that I choose. Demanding that people join your group and agree to your bullshit requirements is just more evidence that you are a complete control freak. - DKB)
Oh - BTW - interesting how your first message quoted, " I have seen families get away with hidden taping in 'all party states'
by using this argument." without taking credit, and now, TA DA, you take credit. How incredibly inconsistent.
(Has it ever occurred to you that since I am not a complete egomaniac I don't need to pat myself on the back and constantly take credit for everything around me, down to copyrighting the snot that lands in my handkerchief when I sneeze? - DKB)
Regards
Suzanne Shell
Once I realized that my email to the moderator had been posted to the group, I deleted the post and wrote the following apology, titled "OMG - So Sorry":
- I mistakenly sent a private email out to the group!
I have deleted it. It was never my intention to bring any arguments
to this group, or to discuss certain issues here. I got distracted
and didn't change to "to line." I'm so sorry - lately I seem to be
like a squirrel with ADD.
Dorothy
And guess what??? Shell responded:
- Dorothy - interpretation - OMG - I blurted out my malicious and deceitful tattling to the whole world. . .what if I get caught? O:-) (I stand by what I wrote. I may be malicious, but at least I'm not deceitful. - DKB)
Sucks to be vindictive AND brain addled, don't it? :-! (Not really, I've gotten used to it.)
So, Dorothy. . .what's your take on the Cheryl Barnes debacle? Looks to me like she whipped on a four year old baby pretty brutally, and is a filthy, disgusting pig when it comes to housekeeping. You'd think, knowing she is targeted by CPS and the subject of repeated interventions, she'd keep her act clean. Curious why she didn't. Any comments? Disavowals? Excuses? Nah. . . too embarrassing to talk about, right? (Embarrassing? How about totally off topic. You're trying to create a straw man argument to redirect my focus away from responding to your accusations so that you can then say that I "avoided" giving an answer. I know how you operate. And Cheryl Barnes and her unfortunate situation has about as much to do with me as the price of crystal meth down on Broad Street.)
Suzanne
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