Posted in news, tagged affairs, ashes, charges, Christine Beatty, court documents, denial, Detroit, evidence, expense, Father Gabriel Richard, fighting spirit, fire, Kwame Kilpatrick, Mayor, motto, perjury, personal, politics, prophecy, prosecutors, public, relationships, school, texting, wife on July 8, 2008|
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Detroit’s motto says something about it’s people…they don’t give up easily. Generally, that fighting spirit is a good thing. It helps us to overcome much in life. The motto: Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus means,” We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes”.
That motto was written by Father Gabriel Richard when the school that he had built in Detroit was destroyed by a fire that destroyed the city in 1805. Obviously, the people of Detroit took that motto to heart and have rallied, to rise from the ashes more than once. It is time to fight again from recent news reports.
Wayne county prosecutors are preparing to amend the charges against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for perjury in the text messaging scandal; that has all but, tied up the city of Detroit with it’s complications. It seems that the prosecutors have discovered new text evidence that underscores the mayor’s alleged extra-marital activities; and the fact that, they were not limited to his former aide Christine Beatty. It makes you wonder if she knew of the others; and how she feels about their relationship now. It also makes you wonder if his wife knew of the others before it came to light in recent days; she has shown great forebearance by standing by him; when the other accusations came to light about Ms. Beatty. Mr. Kilpatricks personal and public relationships are appearing to be very complex; and the text documentation could prove to be his legal undoing. (more…)
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Senator John Warner has asked Samuel Bodman the Energy Secretary to review information that would reveal what the ideal speed limit would be that would allow the most efficient use of gasoline in our vehicles today. With gasoline prices topping $4.15 cents a gallon around the country the timing couldn’t be better to encourage changes in the way that we drive.
Many Americans have already started to alter aimless driving habits. I see nothing wrong with that…we all could do better in planning where we go and what we do while we are out and about. Some people are in denial about the severity of the situation regarding supply and demand as well as all of the damage to our planet that our carelessness has brought.
Would the general population get behind a national drive 55 speed limit? I think it is going to take some convincing as it will be viewed by many as an inconvience after being legally allowed to drive up to 70 mph on some highways. After all, it will take longer to get where they are going. I think more people would be willing to do it if they felt that the automakers were doing more to ensure that we were getting more miles to the gallon by the way that they factory set the computers on our vehicles to use the gasoline we spend our hard earned dollars on. (more…)
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Posted in crime, culture, death, divorce, emotions, family, fathers, Honor, husband, marriage, murder, news, parenting, relationships, violence, tagged anger, Chicago, cultural, daughter, death, divorce, embarassment, failure, family, father, Georgia, honor killing, marriage, news, Pakistani, parenting, respect, unhappy, value on July 8, 2008|
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Once again the term an honor killing, has hit the news. A Pakistani father, Chaudhry Rashid living in Georgia, who had arranged a marriage for his 25 year old daughter Sandeela Kanwal, is being accused of killing her when she expressed that she no longer wished to be married to the man (who she had not seen in recent months as he lives in Chicago).
Sandeela Kanwal was unhappy with the arranged marriage and wished to divorce. Her father allegedly strangled her to death out of a cultural sense of family honor that was in jeaparody in his mind. He was so angry that he chose to end her life, rather than admit that a marriage he had helped to arrange was not working out well.
Did he put so little value in his daughter’s happiness that he put his own sense of embarassment, about the failure of the marriage, ahead of her life? Obviously she respected her father’s wishes and married the man her father had picked out for her. There must have been a compelling reason for her to wish to leave the marriage. What I want to know is…how is family honor preserved by killing one’s own daughter? How is it more honorable to murder than it is to divorce; in any culture?
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