Like roses in May
Such is Our Love
Perennial, Eternal, Passionate
Yet So True, and So Rare
Like wistful melodies that begin
Just when you thought it was done
Sung from one end of the World to the other
No need to be wined and dined
Dear God, just keep our souls
And our hearts, inextricably entwined

copyright 2008 - Lady Rm

Just when you felt despair
Tapping at your windows
Spring Love reassures you
Resurrection at the ready
Fear not
Aloneness is not synonymous with Loneliness
The illusion of Distance
Shattered by Memories of You
Replayed in every Synapse, and Neuron
Re-lived in every Dream.
Dearest, Baby, Bobby and Darling you
These are the colors my Love Prism creates
Kaleidoscopic Dazzling Colors
Of this my Winter's garden is made
Warning - Spring Love is a Tapestry Woven
By the Gods, Tempered by Fire and Ice
To be worn Exclusively by Capricorn/Aries Lovers
Day and night

copyright 2008 - Lady Rm

Knowledge is given to all of us through the Power of God
Accept God's generous gift humbly and with Love

Passion is gracefully offered
To every living soul on Earth, through Jesus Christ
Accept His measureless offer,
His boundless forgiveness to us with respect
And return the passion equally to another human life

Compassion, without question and with open arms
Is charitably given to all of us from Heaven
Through our Holy Mother above
Accept Her essence - to live always in our hearts

Let us “offer” in return, our deepest gratitude
For the Blessings, the Knowledge and the Love
From the Almighty Icons from Our Heaven
And live life with only love
The same as God, Jesus Christ and His Mother
Observing all of us from above

copyright - Lady_Rm2008
“Blessed Moments Happen When We Believe”

Let us not preach or judge
Let us guide those living among us with compassion

Let us feel empathy for those who are less fortunate
Than the rest of us,
Whether in mind or body, heart or spirit

Let us not pass judgment
On those who have not yet discovered
The true path of Life through God

Let us forgive those who trespass against us
They are just trapped souls living among us
Let us pray for those lost souls,
Temporarily living an empty life
That they find their way and bring to light
Only the love in them, as it resides
In all of us, through Jesus Christ

Let us warmly accept that we are blessed
With the knowledge and patience
To know the way of Life
As it is practiced in Heaven, the Kingdom of God
While we live our un-promised days on Earth

Let us remember,
Without God
Living peacefully in our hearts and spirits, bodies and minds
We have nothing, but a purposeless life on Earth

copyright - Rm2008
“Blessed Moments Happen When We Believe”

Human trafficking involves the movement of people against their will and by force for the purpose of sexual or labor exploitation, abduction for sexual and domestic service, abduction for debt release, the exchange of women for settlement of disputes, forced prostitution, and sexual exploitation of children. Fraudulent practices, such as fake employment advertisements that promise jobs and safe entry into another country generally lead to sexual exploitation, dangerous or hard labor, and sex tourism. Victims are either held against their will, afraid to ask authorities for help due to possible deportation, or may not be able to speak the local language when seeking help. Other victims are forced to toil in sweat shops, construction sites, brothels and fields.

Men, women and children experiencing dire political or economic instability are the most susceptible as potential victims. Many, unknowingly, enter this network of organized crime while trying to escape poverty and unemployment or forcibly during conflicts/wars.

Because this criminal enterprise recognizes neither boundaries nor borders, humans are now the third most lucrative illegal traded commodity, after drugs and guns.

The trafficking of persons is becoming the fastest growing illicit activity in the world, annually generating $8-10 billion and moving 800,000 - 900,000 people across borders. The number of human trafficking victims had begun to grow in the early 1990s and in 2004 totaled about 700,000 yearly across international borders and from one million to two million overall. Thirty-five percent are under the age of 18. The trafficking of women and children, many of whom are forced into prostitution, are worldwide human rights problems that may involve two million people a year.

Other victims have been sold in this ancient form of slavery by a relative, acquaintance, or family friend. Not long ago, CNN showed children being sold by their parents, boys and girls alike. Young women sold out by husbands and parents to send money back home. Young women in North America holed up in motel rooms too scared to leave their rooms, and being told what to do. http://www.cnn.con/CNN/Programs/res...easy.prey.html)

The Department of Justice and Congressional Research Service estimates that 17,000 people from overseas are trafficked into the United States each year and coerced into labor or sex slavery for little or no pay, dehumanized and abused both mentally and physically. Worldwide, the United Nations calculates that there are between 20-27 million people who are held in slavery against their will. Congress had strengthened the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, but the Act is not tough enough and those United States’ allies that harbor traffickers are treated with kid gloves (for political reasons. http://www.humantraffickingsearch.net, http://library2.cqpress.com)

Donna M. Hughes, The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, has explicitly stated how new technology - trafficking and sexual exploitation on the Internet - is used as a means of promoting this type of global exploitation against women. That is, bride trafficking, sex tours, promotion and where to buy a prostitute. (http://www.feminista.com)

Some observers of the United States Department of State estimate that the number of persons trafficked per year may be higher than the public report conducted by The Department of Justice and Congressional Research Service. (www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/)

Despite that a second annual Trafficking in Persons Report was sent to Congress, and that the United States seeks to bring international attention to this type of horrific practice, the United States Government is still combating human trafficking and engaging in discussions with governments to help strengthen cooperative efforts to eradicate this growing plague. We all continue to wait for the governments efforts to end human trafficking all around the world. And while we wait, it's difficult to understand why there isn't a greater uproar about this issue worldwide.

Is it possible that the issue of human trafficking isn't getting the attention it deserves because too many people think it is simply prostitution? Perhaps some people believe that because sex slavery is not a modern plague, and has been going on for thousands of years in one form or another with both genders, not just women and girls, that there’s not much that can be done to stop human trafficking in the future?

The issue of prostitution is that a number of us always believed that prostitution should be illegal, as well, that the true criminal is not the prostitute but the person who uses economic power to abuse the vulnerable. Prostitution is not victimless, and reflects the ever continuing grasp of misogynist political philosophy on the application and enforcement of laws that demeans and degrades women and men. Another group believes that by not legalizing prostitution, it is not going to make it go away so it may as well become a legal industry, while giving fair rights to those people who participate in prostitution and may minimally have a legal leg to stand on.

With mixed feelings and ideas from either side and on every side, it seems that the ending of human trafficking is not near.

Hope is Eternal when you believe
In the Miracles of Life devotedly
Side by side with Faith & Perseverance
From the moment we open our eyes
To the gift of a day’s new sunrise

When you embrace Hope, Faith & Perseverance
The “three gems of Life”
Together with
The strength living in your spirit & mind
You accomplish all you have ever desired in Life
Time after time after time
In your world, there is no darkness,
Not even at night

When you believe there is Hope
You possess the Faith to achieve
When you Persevere instead of yielding
You succeed beyond your means
Because the real strengths of Hope & Faith
Lives in your Power to Persevere

copyright - Rm2008

“Blessed Moments Happen When We Believe”

Does it only seem as though most sex predators/pedophiles scarcely go unpunished before they end back in our communities only to prove to us that they will never change their predatory ways? Does the responsibility lie with the officials we have elected to enforce laws that will protect us?

Because there isn't anything that can be done (scientifically) to control the ills of these demented criminals, nor studies to show that sex predators/pedophiles can be cured, there is sufficient evidence that these criminals will continue to re-offend when released from prison. Yet, knowing that sick perverts cannot be rehabilitated, the justice system unleashes them back into our communities to repeat their monstrosities.

A majority of mental health researchers and defense attorneys argue that criminals who create mayhem, and violate our children, have rights. It logically seems as though the justice system is defending and protecting the criminals, while abandoning the victimized citizens and their children.

Most of us will argue that criminals who commit heinous crimes, such as molestation, rape and murder of our children have forfeited their rights. (The world is difficult enough as it is without mentally twisted fiends destroying innocent lives.)

Now, the new push in every state's Department of Corrections is to stop building new prisons because it’s too costly. While releasing vicious criminals from prison may save tax dollars, it costs priceless lives. (The notorious child killer, Marc Dutroux, was released from prison only to continue adding victims to his list.)

If those officials we rely on to enforce laws do not take severe measures to safeguard our communities and protect us, we will sooner begin to ask, "Whose child (or loved one) will be the next victim?"

People's Opinions

1- Some people say, put pedophiles away into our prison system for the rest of their lives. That would be nice if the hardworking tax payers would willingly accept having the burden of supporting these criminals for the rest of their lives. But the system rejects this idea because those in charge claim that costs keep increasing yearly, as does the prison population.

2- Others believe in the death penalty, even if the cost of putting someone on death row ends up being very expensive too, due to all the appeals. When we are one-hundred percent certain that someone is a sexual beast, citizens feel he should be put out of his misery and executed.

3- Castration won't work. "A guy confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down, attempted to digitally penetrate a girl, while he had previously said to the mother that he would watch over her while the mother started her vehicle. In one moment, he picked up the girl, held her on his lap and locked the door behind him. Thankfully, the mom heard the girl screaming, kicked the door down, beat the perpetrator and saved her daughter. He is currently serving a term of 75 years. (www.crimelibrary.com)

4- A large group believes we should put all pedophiles on a deserted island away from civilization. Let them have their own society, where they can rape, molest and murder each other, as long as they are kept away from our children.

5- Others have suggested the renewed use of lobotomies. This may be the best solution, if only a doctor could figure out how to disable that part of the brain that causes the urges that trigger evil. Otherwise, the death sentence may be best.

Although none of us has a definitive solution, what most of us realizes is that sex predators/pedophiles are not being kept in prison long enough, and the system cannot afford to keep them locked up for a lifetime.

Meanwhile, it's time to monitor the young and potential predators/pedophiles who are actively abusive and show behavioral signs of sexual offense before they become adults. The justice systems must find ways to put them under scrutiny at an early age to prevent them from preying and destroying innocent children in the future. Teachers and parents ought to be encouraged and trained to recognize young predators/pedophiles, then report them to seek psychiatric treatment and remain closely monitored.

There can be no true-blue gift of love from God
Than that of a true heart, loving soul.

I believe with the whole of my being
That I am truly blessed
To have someone as divine as you in my Life.

I love you for being here for me, unconditionally.

I love you eternally for being the person you are to me.

Happy Heart's Day

copyright 2008 - Rm

Do we, the people, have the right to mandate random drug/alcohol testing for all police officers?

About 90% of our citizens would like to see mandatory substance testing of police officers, especially during Internal Review procedures, or criminal investigations involving unethical men/women in blue, and those same citizens prefer that these unscheduled drug/alcohol tests be applied and carried out as most Corporations, agencies and companies do, that is they require potential employees to submit fingerprinting, urine and blood tests before hiring. (Some agencies may also require hair samples.) Police officers should not be exempt, especially since these important officials are called on to serve and protect us and our property.

(Discretionary testing isn't working because routine testing can be manipulated, prepared for and avoided in its scheduled form, the same as whenever a teacher announces an exam. To study for an exam in advance is easy.)

If law enforcement officers demand announced or scheduled drug testing for which they can easily prepare, it would only fuel doubts in citizens’ minds, that these officers have something to hide. In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, correction officers get tested randomly. In most states, so do truck drivers.

We know well that officers are put into stressful life threatening situations daily. They are called upon to protect the lives of the public, to make on-the-spot mental decisions as required. It is common knowledge that stresses and socioeconomic difficulties are known to lead or escalate drug use or drinking to excess, so the policy for police officers to submit to random unannounced urine, blood and hair samples should not be open for discussion.

As a rule, police officers are bound to personally support the laws governing his or her jurisdiction. The citizens of that jurisdiction rightfully expect that the officer will be in extremely good mental and physical health while executing his or her duty, as is the case in any profession where employees carry firearms or have the responsibility to handle illicit substances. (It is against the law for drug dealers/addicts to possess firearms, yet it is permitted by current guidelines, that other potential addicts whom we rely on for protection may carry and use one because he or she has a badge.) If a police officer is going to carry a weapon and drive a vehicle at high speeds through our communities we have the right to peace of mind knowing that the officers have a clear substance free mind.

(In Canada, though, workplace drug testing is anything but routine, which is why retired Ontario justice George Ferguson's call to make drug tests mandatory for Toronto Police Service Officers being promoted or transferred to sensitive or high-risk units has sparked such an uproar. Toronto Star Newspaper - www.thestar.com.

Considering that it is legal in Victoria, Canada for police officers to stop any passing motorist and administer a drug test, isn't it fair that all police officers agree to be randomly tested as well?)

The exchange of views on this topic engages another thought. In the history of America there have been previous incidents of police officers working against the system due to their own personal demons or greed. Because police officers have the ability to shield and conceal their unlawful actions and addictions, it's necessary for management to use random drug/alcohol testing on the job. Officers who are performing their duties while under the influence are not only putting their partners in harm's way, but the citizens as well, thus opening up the possibilities of costly litigation.

(Only a minority of citizens claims that it is unfair to mandate that police officers be tested. Their position is that this action is not only an invasion of privacy but that other groups should be targeted before the police officers. That is, school bus drivers, teachers, governmental clerks, welfare recipients, professional sports athletes, Doctors, surgeons, et cetera.)

However, a majority of the hardworking taxpayers who fund the police officers' salaries feel random drug/alcohol testing of police officers is fair. We want to feel secured after all in knowing that the officer who is protecting and serving the citizens is not under the influence of drugs/alcohol, which in return will allow the person who's relying on the officer to trust that officer and show him or her the gratitude that he or she has earned. This should create a win/win situation for all, as these tests would help weed out the bad apples, and increase levels of safety for our citizens, while improving police professionalism, and creating much needed trust. The very foundation of civilization depends on trusted authority figures.

Citizens asking for drug/alcohol testing of all police officers are not an attack on the men and women in blue. The demand enhances respect and trust on all levels of policing. It allows undercover workers an added safety net ensuring their health is monitored and it gives governing bodies the ability to help those in need or discharge those abusing the system and their roles as public servants.

Random drug testing for police officers will boost the trust and integrity in that important agency, while providing a transparent hiring process that would equalize conditions in the work force, while also re-enforcing fairness, and safety for all. Without safety in our communities, there can be no substantial freedoms, nor economic growth, fairness, and safety for all. Without safety in our communities, there can be no substantial freedoms, nor economic growth.

When he or she pretends to have an orgasm, is the person who is faking inadvertently harming the relationship? Why would anyone want to fake an orgasm? A 1988 study, conducted by sociologists, revealed that 60% of women occasionally faked having an orgasm. At that time, the study also revealed that only but a few men fake it since they rarely have difficulty climaxing. If they do have trouble, they fake it when they feel they are about to lose their erection, hence fooling their partner

(Today, 25% of men admitted to faking it, some even did it during oral sex. Guys can't falsify ejaculation, but they can fake their moans and movements. Why do they? Like women, they may be tired, stressed or simply having difficulty climaxing, but want their partner to feel good about the experience - www.glamour.com - October 2007)

Another reason why women (and men) choose to pretend is because men consider orgasm proof of their skill in satisfying their partner. And since it's difficult for a man to tell whether their partner climaxed or faked it, most men need to ask, "Did you come?" What is wrong with the truth? Sadly, some people cannot accept the truth. They say they want to hear the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but the truth is they end up splashing and rolling around in self-pity, verbalizing that it's okay when it's not.

Then, there are some women who fake it to get it over and done with because sex is not such a hot deal to them. You do it. It's finished. To some, career goals and ambition take precedence to sex. They feel comfortable pretending and pleasing their partner at the same time. It works for them and their man's ego is intact.

Of course, a man cannot give you an orgasm. He can only provide the stimulation that contributes to arousal by learning what works for you, and by the way he treats you using the techniques that please you. Unfortunately, the problem is that there are men who do not know how to please their mate, particularly those who have spent their lives having sex randomly and seeking self gratification. Because of this immature lifestyle they end up unable to physically discover what is pleasing to their partners. They never grow into mature adults. This is not to excuse making pretending orgasm a trend. Because if he should discover your deception, the relationship will become hostile, and probably terminate.

So the next time you feel yourself beginning to pretend, ask yourself, Why must I pretend? If you feel you have to please him more than yourself, then he is doing something wrong. This is not to say that you have to climax every time you have sex or that you cannot enjoy sex unless you reach orgasm. But, if you never do, or rarely do, you need to consider that maybe your partner just isn’t the right partner for you.