Darfur-
Genocide - systematic and planned termination of an entire nation, race or ethnic group.
Janjaweed - translates to "Devils on Horseback" - the "Bad" guys - Arab Africans murdering and displacing Black Africans.
2 million Africans are now in refugee camps, dying daily because of Lack of food, the Janjaweed burn the "barns" food storage huts.
What can we do???
First of all we should pray.... The Janjaweed are murdering these people, most of the people are muslim, therefore the murder of these people is a sentence to Hell. So first of all we PRAY, we pray that God - TRUTH will be revealed to the people.
Next Educate yourself on the conflict. You can google: Darfur for tons of info, or watch videos on the crisis.
Finally, we write letters to the US Government.... Click here to find the address and email address of your representatives. Contact Congress
Again, Pray!

SO this was the last day of Spring Break, it's Friday. Today we got up late, then went for a two hour walk stopping to play at 2 parks along the way. Then we came home, ate freezies and hung out on the deck, I got sunburn on my cheeks. Then we took a shower and got ready to go to the Chiropractor, I just met last weekend and already "like" the guy a ton, he adjusted both Mk and me, and the headache that I have been having for the last few months is now gone. I told Mk that I really liked the Dr and she said we love the dr. Then we came home and played, read books, colored, rearranged mk's bedroom and then ate dinner and now we are playing a little more before bed. This was a great last day of spring break. Tomorrow will be a day for the personal Journal, I'm going to visit " the Boys" it's been almost 3 years since we have had an intentional vist. That's all I have to say about that.

On a lighter note, spring break just started and it is definately needed. I don't think that I have ever been so happy for a spring break when I'm not even going anywhere or doing anything. Just going to spend the next 5 days hanging out with Mk and finishing potty training, and maybe doing a few crafts. Don't forget to come to the Dinner for Darfur on Wed. the 28th.

On a lighter note, spring break just started and it is definately needed. I don't think that I have ever been so happy for a spring break when I'm not even going anywhere or doing anything. Just going to spend the next 5 days hanging out with Mk and finishing potty training, and maybe doing a few crafts. Don't forget to come to the Dinner for Darfur on Wed. the 28th.

The Crisis in Darfur has been on the News for 11 minutes if you combine all the stations together, Anna Nicole Smith has been on for over 1000 minutes, where are our priorities ? The worst Humanitarian Crisis in History - as classified by the UN, verses a blonde who I personally do not know what she added to the human race that will have a lasting impact or even the reason that she was popular.?

500 people are dying everyday, that is one person every 3 minutes. not just dying but being murdered, I heard a story from a boy that the Janjaweed came into his village and took the babies from the arms of their mothers and threw the boys into a pot of boiling water and sliced the throat of the girls. While the mothers could do nothing. The Janjaweed beat his bother and him with a stick and then hit him in the forhead with the butt of a gun, leaving him with a scar across his entire forehead. That is just one story, of one day in Nov. of 2006, we are still standing by doing nothing. What can we do to help? We are here and they are there. I asked a radio personality the other day if he has talked about Darfur on his program yet, he said no, then I asked why the media is spending so little time on Darfur, he told me that our resources are being spent elsewhere, why doesn't France do something about it, we can not get involoved with everything. The UN should be sending in the blue uniforms, thats what he said. I guess that is all I want to say about that because it gets my heart rate up just talking about how little we are doing.
Genocide - the systematic and planned extermination of an entire nation, race or ethnic group.
The US labeled this crisis genocide 2 years ago. The only genocide classified as genocide while it is still happening.

Don't miss dinners for Darfur, fund raiser. The dinner will be at Olivet Baptist Church in Crytal, MN on Wed. March 28th at 5:30 pm. Hand made crafts available for sale. If you don't know much about what the UN has called "the worst humanitarian crisis in history" you should come to learn more about it and what you can do to help or google Darfur and find out. Then write to your congress person and Pray pray pray.