Rev. Lainie Dowell

Just when you think you’ve heard it all– with ObamaTRAUMA, the stuff just keeps on coming. And, as though it wasn’t bad enough that Obama has allowed his administration to move the 2010 Census from out of the Department of Commerce into the White House under the authority of Rahm Emanuel, his Elbow-er-in-chief with the Chicago persuasion, something else comes down the pike to override the damage he has already done and continues to increase his destruction of America as we know and love her. And it just keeps on coming!

Get acquainted with the friendly neighborhood census taker. After all, it isn’t every day you see one coming down the street and ringing your door bell.
When I told him it was a single family home, he nodded and started to walk away but without asking me any other questions. I saw that he had a hand calculator and called him back. I asked if he was from Census and he said he was. Then I asked him when did it start, because I hadn’t heard anything about it on the news. I asked him if he was going to ask me anything about who lives in the house, etc. To my astonishment, he told me they were starting early with preliminary work (2009!!!) so that they wouldn’t waste the taxpayer’s time and money. And he told me that all he was checking for was whether or not there were empty houses — (In my neighborhood???) It was a surreal moment. I was so mad that I gave him an earful about the nerve of Obama and how he was already wasting the taxpayer’s time and money and that he was destroying this country and he needs to be impeached!U.S. Census 2010. The Census is governed by federal laws in the United States Code, Title 13 (Sections 9, 141, 193, 214, and 221) and Title 44 (Section 2108).Paperwork Project . Use “Paperwork Project 0607-0809″ in the subject line.Congressman Darrell Issa.–
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Earlier today, my doorbell rung. A young man was standing there with a patch on his shoulder. At first I thought it was a police officer. He had a badge on a chain around his neck. When I inquired, he told me all he wanted to know was if I had a whole house or if it was an apartment house — HUH!!!!! How can you miss that I live in a whole house instead of it being broken up into apartments??? Large, I’ll grant you, but single family for sure.

Needless to say, the poor guy looked at me wide-eyed, he was speechless, and he tried to get away. But, then I asked him how the 2010 Census was able to get started now in 2009? The young man told me that his field supervisor (an Hispanic man) had o.k.’d it. Now I was speechless! If my head could spin, it would have spun off my shoulders. I was turning faster in my mind then my body could move me. At one point, he had to ask me to let him get a word in. Maybe I didn’t have my radio or TV on the day they announced it and missed that announcement about the early (“preliminary”) census takers. But, boy! I sure needed that vent, even if he didn’t!

However, as he was trying to make his getaway, he ripped a piece of paper off his pad and handed it in my direction. It contained typed information about the

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Everything that we watchdogs have continued to declare about Obama and his socialist agenda? Well, he has certainly not disappointed any of us on that score whatsoever.

After I had shut my door, I went on the internet and found out that Census centers are being set up all over the country right now and “census takers” are getting their walking orders to take to the streets — like ACORN(ers) have done for ages? I believe I have also found a great government resource online to be able to vent even more. Please take a look and join me. I’ve already said my piece (i.e., For now!) Click on the link below.

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform – Republicans. Ranking Member is Congressman Darrell Issa

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A child holds a “memory book” – helping her deal with the loss of her parents

DURBAN,  – In the popular imagination, the face of the AIDS epidemic in southern Africa is often an orphan who has lost both parents to the virus and is now fending for him or herself in a household made up solely of other children.

Child-headed households certainly exist in South Africa, but the commonly held wisdom, reinforced by the media, that extended families cannot absorb any more orphans, and the number of child-headed households has been rising steeply in recent years due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, has never been backed up by solid data.

New research by the Children’s Institute of the University of Cape Town has found that the popular perception of both AIDS orphans’ and child-headed households has little basis in reality.

We need to redefine the word ˜orphan, said Katharine Hall of the Institute, presenting the research at the 4th South African AIDS Conference in Durban on Thursday.

The Institute estimates that AIDS orphans actually only account for 37 percent of the total 18.2 million orphans in South Africa, and that 80 percent of those have a surviving parent.

By analyzing data from 22 national household and labour surveys between 2000 and 2006, Hall and her colleagues found that the proportion of child-headed households in South Africa had not increased in that period, and had remained below one percent.

Orphans who had lost both parents only accounted for 8 percent of child-headed households, and most such households were located in three largely rural provinces: Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape. No child-headed households were recorded in the more urban provinces, such as Gauteng.

Hall argued that the focus on HIV as the main cause of child-headed households has masked other social realities, such as the need for many parents in rural areas to migrate to cities to find work, and had skewed the interventions set up to address the problem.

The existence of living parents in the majority of cases suggest it’s inappropriate to conceive of these households as permanent arrangements requiring intervention or dissolution, she said.

Government support

While it is widely recognized that the most effective interventions for orphaned or abandoned children are those that support family members to care for them, bureaucratic requirements for accessing such support have tended to hinder rather than help this process.

Sonja Giese presented findings from research she conducted on behalf of the Alliance for Children’s Entitlement to Social Security (ACESS) into obstacles to obtaining birth registration documents for children. Without them, caregivers are unable to access social grants and other forms of government assistance.

Registering a child’s birth requires the presence of the mother, who must present her own identification document. There are no alternatives for children living with other caregivers.

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Barbara Hogan

DURBAN, – Health Minister Barbara Hogan closed the 4th South African AIDS Conference in Durban on Friday by addressing some of the concerns raised about the cost and feasibility of scaling up South Africa’s HIV/AIDS treatment programme to meet the enormous need.

Hogan reaffirmed the government’s commitment to implementing the National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS, which aims to have 80 percent of those in need of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment on the drugs by 2011.

She highlighted the need to go beyond asking how many people are on treatment, to other crucial questions such as how many are staying on treatment, how long waiting lists are, and how we can reduce the costs of drugs and laboratory tests, because “Without this information we cannot plan properly.”

In the context of the current global financial crisis and a number of provinces overspending their budgets in the past year, Hogan called for HIV and AIDS resources to be spent more efficiently.

She told delegates that the health department would be sending teams of financial experts to each of the country’s nine provinces during the course of the year to find the reasons for overspending.

“We cannot afford any stock-outs of ARVs,” she said, referring to last year’s crisis in Free State Province. “Whilst we may say ARV treatment is expensive, we have no other option; any other option would be far more expensive.”

Hogan called on international donors to start making longer-term commitments, and to coordinate their assistance with other donors.

Referring a session on the collapse of Zimbabwe’s health system, Hogan also emphasised the need for more cross-border health policies, in particular to address drug-resistant TB.

She urged employers of migrant workers, especially mining companies, to start investing in better TB prevention and treatment, and in cross-border referral systems for TB and HIV.

“It would be foolish to think we can scale up in isolation from our neighbours,” she said. “Health knows no borders.”

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