Kat McPhee performs “Surrender” at WH reception (video)

March 9, 2010

Katharine McPhee performs an original song at the WH at the International Women’s Day Reception.

“Surrender” from her new album “Unbroken”.

Courtesy of VSW

HillarysGreatestFan -

Don’t know what is happening. This is the third time I’m posting this.

March 14, 2010

Hello HillarysGreatestFan.

Yes. Got your message. Thanks. Had trouble seeing this week so I didn’t post much. Have everything you asked about regarding Secy Clinton and women’s month etc. Probably have them up over the next few hours. Appreciate your kind words.

ps Found Katharine McPhee’s performance at WH.

Cartoon: It’s jobs, stupid

March 13, 2010

(John Darkow/The Columbia Daily)

POTUS: Charities to receive Nobel Prize money

March 12, 2010

Total money awarded $1.4M.

Divided between 10 charities: $100K – 250K

Two interesting ones:

$200,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund

$100,000 to the Central Asia Institute

The Central Asia Institute promotes and supports community-based education and literacy, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.  The Institute’s co-founder, Greg Mortenson, was also a Nobel Peace Prize nominee this year, whose book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time, recounts his attempt to successfully establish dozens of schools and promote girls’ education in rural Afghanistan and Pakistan.

FULL LIST FOLLOWS

POTUS: “We have been certified…as the most transparent White House in history”

March 13, 2010

Who still believes this?

He has never been transparent – ever.

For starters – how many of the white presidents’ birthplaces aren’t known?

Then there’s missing medical (including psychiatric and drug history) and school records and his real past history – not what’s chronicled by him (Ayers) in those automythologies.

Here he actually tries to get away with saying that he didn’t really break his promise about C-SPAN because only the “meetings [he] had with some of the legislative leadership” weren’t televised.

POTUS on You Tube (Feb 1)

Q: Government reform – Warren Hunter in Brooklyn:

How do you expect people in this country to trust you when you’ve repeatedly broken promises that were made on the campaign trail, most recently the promise to have a transparent health care debate?

THE PRESIDENT:

Well, I guess, first of all, I would say that we have been certified by independent groups as the most transparent White House in history.  It’s important to understand.  We are the first White House since the founding of the republic to list every visitor that comes into the White House online so that you can look it up.  People know more about the inner workings of this White House, the meetings we have.  We’ve excluded lobbyists from boards and commissions, but we also report on any lobbyist who meets with anybody who’s part of our  — part of our administration.

This is such a blatant lie that someone has to finally call him on it. What are the names of those “independent groups” who certified them?

They did not “voluntarily” post the visitors’ names. They were being sued by CREW: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to produce a list of the names of energy people that had visited. The WH claimed executive privilege. Not so said the judge. And the list only starts in September 2009 – long after he agreed to put it up. And then there’s all the other lies – there hasn’t always been “5 days of sunshine” before he signs something and David Axelrod is a lobbyist.

When will the press put an end to his transparency fairy tale?

We’ve actually followed through on a lot of the commitments that we’d made.

“A lot of commitments”?

Name one thing he hasn’t go back on – starting with public finance.

And so Warren is mistaken in terms of how he characterized it.

No he wasn’t, and even if he were, barry didn’t do anything to prove/rebut it.

What is fair to say is that as the health care process went forward, not every single aspect of it was on C-SPAN.  Now, keep in mind, most of the action was in Congress, so every committee hearing that was taking place, both in the House and the Senate, those were all widely televised.  The only ones that were not were meetings that I had with some of the legislative leadership trying to get a sense from them in terms of what it was that they were trying to do.

Democratic leadership, Sens Nelson and Landrieu, Pharma, unions…Just the fact he tries to cover his lie on C-SPAN is sad. He hasn’t done anything to change Washington – he just whines about it and blame everyone but himself.

I think it is a fair criticism.  I’ve acknowledged that.  And that’s why as we move forward making sure that in this last leg, these five yards before we get to the goal line, that everybody understands exactly what’s going on in the health care bill, that there are no surprised, no secrets.  That’s going to be an imperative.  It’s going to be one of my highest priorities.

What percentage of Congress will have read every page of the bill before they vote on it and of those how many will be able to explain it to their constituents?

Cartoon: Healthcare divide

March 13, 2010

Why depict this position?

“Health Care Reform”

(John Cole/The Scranton Times)

There are other positions and other anatomical regions that “push” and “pull” apply to.

POTUS: “We’ve tried terrorists in our courts…they’ve never escaped”

March 10, 2010

In reference to the original decision to try KSM in New York. Figured the plan will be changing shortly. Justice Dept estimated the cost of the trial in NY to be around $72M.

• $23M for security
• $15M for transportation [??]
• $15M for litigation
• $7M for detainee housing
• $12M for related expenses.

Obscene waste of money on someone who wanted to plead guilty anyway. And then there’s the $237 million to acquire, staff and supermax the prison in Thomson to house the terrorists.

POTUS on You Tube (Feb 1)

We’ve tried a lot of terrorists in our courts, we have them in our federal prisons – they’ve never escaped. And these folks are no different.  It’s been one of those things that’s been subject to a lot of, in some cases, pretty rank politics.

He thinks escape is the problem. The last thing they want to do is escape. They want a provide a concrete place for their fellow Muslims to focus their hate.

Full answer to You Tube question. He says “IF we’re closing Guantanamo”.

MR. GROVE:  The question we missed from the deck, but it was about Guantanamo, and essentially he was just saying why is it taking so long to close down Guantanamo?

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, it’s pretty straightforward.  Number one, you’ve got a whole bunch of individuals in Guantanamo, some of whom are very dangerous, some of whom were low-level fighters, some of whom the courts have determined should never have been put there in the first place.  We’ve had to evaluate each of those cases, hundreds of cases [242], one by one, to determine what these various categories are, and do it in a way that stands up to our standards of due process and legal scrutiny.

Then we’ve got to figure out, if we’re closing Guantanamo, where are we going to put them?

[Something that should have been thought of when the promises was being made over and over]

And we have proposed that there are a number of options on the continental United States where you could hold these people as trials either in military commissions or in Article 3 courts are pending.  But unfortunately, there has been a lot of political resistance, and, frankly, some of it just politically motivated — some of it people being legitimately scared about, well, if we’ve got somebody who we’ve been told is a terrorist in our backyard, will that make us a target?

[Never answers that question]

One of the things that we’ve had to try to communicate to the country at large is that, historically, we’ve tried a lot of terrorists in our courts; we have them in our federal prisons; they’ve never escaped.  And these folks are no different.  But it’s been one of those things that’s been subject to a lot of, in some cases, pretty rank politics.

[Always has an out]

And we’ve got to work through that process because Congress ultimately controls the purse strings in creating new facilities. If Congress makes a decision that they are going to try to block the opening of a new facility, it potentially constrains what our administration can do. And so this is something that we’ve got to work through both in Congress but also with public opinion so that people understand that ultimately this is the right thing to do.  By closing Guantanamo, we can regain the moral high ground in the battle against these terrorist organizations.

There’s been no bigger propaganda weapon for many of these extremists than pointing to Guantanamo and saying that we don’t live up to our own ideals.  And that’s something that I strongly believe we have to resist, even if it has some costs to it, and even if it’s not always the most politically popular thing to do.

Getting tired of that politicially popular thing to do. It’s all he does. One could make a lot of money predicting what he’s going to do to not do because it’s always the same.

His argument originally had some validity but it ended when he sent 6 Yemenis back just in time to wish diaper bomber good luck. Men already predisposed to hate who were locked up and likely received enhanced interrogation were sent right back into the latest hotbed of terror so they could fill people in first hand. And according to the Pentagon – of those released, 1 in 5 ends up killing again.

And how much of a show trial was it going to be when Gibbs et al were proclaiming KSM guilty and predicting that “he’s going to meet his maker” and “will be executed for the crimes that he committed” when NY doesn’t have the death penalty?

Hildebrand re midterms: “real chance we’re going to get slaughtered”

March 11, 2010

Steve Hildebrand is speaking up again with concerns about the barry WH. Never did get the story of why Hildebrand was never given a WH post – whether it was by choice or a direct decision not to by barrypeople.

He met with David Axelrod at the WH about the Republicans getting the upper hand in cleaning up Washington, beginning with Reps Rangel and Massa. If Pelosi/Reid were smart they would have taken care of Rangel a year ago so it wouldn’t be a campaign issue now.

CNN

HILDEBRAND:

I think that there is a real shot we [Democrats] are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren’t leading the efforts to reform Washington. We campaigned in ’06 and ’08, and if voters don’t see that change, we haven’t lived up to that promise.

Hildebrand is working to clean up the influence of big money donations – reparations perhaps for barry’s hypocrisy? He’s lobbying on behalf of the “Fair Elections Now Act, which would limit federal campaign contributions to $100 to try and cut the influence of big money donations”.

Does he think barry is doing enough on campaign finance?

I don’t think anyone in Washington is doing enough on this.

I don’t think anyone in Washington is doing anything but talking.

HILDEBRAND:

Point is things [are] happening today in Washington under Democratic leadership that were happening under Republican leadership that we went after pretty hard as a party. We went after that culture of corruption, and I don’t believe there is a culture of corruption, but I do believe there is an image problem that Washington in general has to deal with. And Democrats are in trouble now and if they don’t do anything.

Sums it up succinctly, doesn’t it?

They’ve been in trouble since VA and NJ and the red alert sounded in Mass but they’re still not listening.

Hildebrand points to the angry masses who actually expected barry to Change! instead of being so blatantly Old Washington with his deals for healthcare and lobbyists.

HILDEBRAND:

Voters want solutions, but voters know that it starts with getting money out of politics first. And I’m going to push that with David, I’m going to push that with anyone that will listen.

Axelrod told CNN that Hildebrand is a “very passionate advocate” who has some “fair criticism” of fellow Democrats. Left unsaid: criticism specific to the Democrats in the WH.

Hildebrand is pleased with the passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, with how barry managed the economy and the fact that he hasn’t given up on healthcare.

Seems he’s not in touch with the 52% of Americans who do not want healthcare reform passed and the 69% who feel the country is going in the wrong direction.

Chief Justice Roberts questions being present at SOTU address

March 10, 2010

Source: CNN

Chief Justie John Roberts is still upset about POTUS directly chastising them at the State of the Union over their ruling on campaign finance, which allows corporations, unions and PACS to donate.

POTUS:

With all due deference to the separation of powers, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections.

barry was financed/heleped by all three groups to get elected and then made backroom deals with Pharma and unions. And he lied about taking public finance – so who was barry to speak?

And he got it wrong by including foreign corporations, which is as Justice Alito mouthed – not true.

Roberts spoke with University of Alabama students.

Chief Justice JOHN ROBERTS:

It does cause me to think whether or not it makes sense for us to be there. To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I’m not sure why we’re there.

Roberts said it’s ok for “people” to criticize but that it’s a matter of decorum. Decorum, protocol, etiquette are things barry not only knows nothing about, he doesn’t think it applies to him.

ROBERTS: Some people, I think, have an obligation to criticize what we do, given their office, if they think we’ve done something [wrong]. So I have no problems with that. On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum. The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering, while the court, according to the requirements of protocol, has to sit there, expressionless, I think is very troubling.

Recall barry voted against Roberts and Alito and Alito refused to stay for barry’s inappropriate meeting with the Court. A meeting that took place behind closed doors before he was inaugurated and while birth certificate/eligibility cases were pending before the Court.

Justices Antonin Scalia and John Paul Stevens do not regularly attend the SOTU because of its partisan nature.

Ms Boyle moving from Blackburn home

March 10, 2010

Susan Boyle posts

Source: STV

Ms Boyle has decided (agreed, been coerced, required by contract…) to move from her Blackburn home to London. Security is the reason cited.

She has had at least two intruders:

In Jan, Scot: “a male fan broke into her home”.

In Nov, American: “a crazed American fan turned up at her Blackburn property.”<

The one who was actually in her home when she arrived is a male fan and the one on the property is a crazed American.

Interesting phrase:

the singer has now been convinced it would be safer for her to up sticks and move somewhere completely new.

And her “beloved moggie Pebbles” will go with her.

A Susan source:

She (Susan) has now agreed to move to a place in the city (London), where she’ll stay when busy working. During promotion commitments it is thought she will stay for weeks at a time. To see her in a secure location will ease a lot of minds.

Easing one mind will ease all the others.

Lester Holt impersonates Susan Boyle

March 10, 2010

Susan Boyle posts

Hello Maybelle.

Here’s the video of Lester Holt impersonating Susan Boyle on Halloween.

Don’t know anything about him doing it a second time.

Rasmussen: POTUS approval Index -19

March 9, 2010

Disapprove 54
At least somewhat approve 44

Strongly disapprove 41
Strongly approve 22

Rasmussen Poll

Lucy’s Vitameatavegamin commercial (video)

March 9, 2010

Jesus apparition on Marmite lid

March 9, 2010

 

Search term: “Rahm Emanuel naked”

March 9, 2010

People arrive here from all sorts of search terms – if that stat page can be believed – but why would anyone want to see this? And how is it leading people here?

Found this from ABC News concerning Rep Eric Massa, (D-NY).

Massa is stepping down from Congress ostensibly to avoid an ethics investigation regarding his alleged improper behavior towards a male staffer during a wedding party. Massa claims it was nothing more than inappropriate language. [His account.]

So, yesterday, on a NY radio station (WKPQ-Power 105), Massa reportedly went off on a rant and among other things accused the WH of ‘setting him up’ because he wasn’t going to vote for healthcare.

The staffer didn’t come forward – someone “offended for him” did.

[Folks who know how barry won his elections won't find Massa's accusations out of the realm of possibility - nor would Rep Joe Sestak who was offered a high-ranking job to not oppose Specter in the primaries.]

Included in Massa’s rant was a naked Rahm Emanuel.

What Massa describes is in it’s own way “improper behavior” of a superior and for sure pleny of “inappropriate language” was used.

ABC: In his radio address, Massa touched on everything from walking in on a Navy stateroom roommate masturbating to an encounter with a naked White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in the House gym.

MASSA: I was a Congressman in my first eight weels. And I was in the Congressional gym and I went down and worked out. And I went into the showers. I am sitting there showering, naked as a jay bird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest yelling at me because I wasn’t going to vote for the president’s budget.

Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?

It’s ridiculous.

Adding:

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn. He is an indiviudal who would sell his own mother to get a vote – he would strap his chldren to the front end of a steam engine.

Mystery solved.

But it doesn’t explain those looking for a “full frontal” of Chris Matthews, Tom DeLay and Keith Olbermann.

The mystery of Jeff Skiles’ neck

Hey Redbaron. I’m really sorry about this. It was all set but never got posted. You’re not the only one who wondered about it. Hope this clears it up.

Cartoon: Promise of the Grand Uniter

June 27, 2009
Unity, New Hampshire

“Unite for Change” Rally

One did/is doing her job and the other has led to this…

“The very last remaining piece of common ground between Republicans and Democrats”

(Cagle Cartoons & wiki)

Hamas founder’s son: “Moderate Islam doesn’t exist”

March 8, 2010

UK Cleric: “Islam does not mean peace”

Sean Hannity talks with Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, about his former life in a Hamas family (he was never a member of Hamas) then as a spy for Israel. He says there is no such thing as moderate Islam. Surprise. He moved to California in 2007, converted to Christianity and wrote a book about it.

FOXNewsElectionHQ

[hand transcribed]

MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF:

The God of the Koran hates Jews anyway if there was occupation or not…Problem with Jews is with the God of Islam not Muslims themselves….If you die for the glory of the Koran you go to heaven.

Yes, he believes there would be 72 virgins. No God hates His own creation. It’s the people teaching the Koran who hate Jews.

Why are Jews so hated anyway?

He said the Muslims, if they believe in the God of the Koran, do not have a choice about jihad.

I worked against the Hamas movement…against evil…I did what was right to save human life – Palestinians and Israelis….I understand the mentality of terrorists.

Just labeled HAMAS a terrorist group, even if barry and Jimmy Carter don’t think so.

Hannity asks him about the difference between radical Islam and mainstream Islam.

This is a big mistake – comparing between moderates Muslims and fanatics….All Muslims to me are the same.

HANNITY: When people talk about moderate Islam, you’re saying it doesn’t exist?

It doesn’t exist…Muslims have moralities, responsibilities, logics more than their God.

This is a stretch:

The most criminal terrorist Muslim has morality and a minimum of humanity more than their God. Their God is a terrorist and ignorant.

And his father?

He was absolutely forgiving. But when I went public with the story, he couldn’t handle the pressure from his God and from his society. His God unskinned his humanity and now he is divided between me and Him.

Nebraska inmates donate $2015 for Haiti relief

March 8, 2010

They maybe criminals but they are Americans first. Prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary collected money to donate to Haiti relief. Clayton Kern and Willie Tucker are both serving life sentences for murder and both were moved by the devastation in Haiti. Kern makes $3.78 a day and Tucker $1.21 and they both sent $10. Nearly 200 inmates gave a total of $2,015 to the Red Cross.

WILLIE TUCKER:

A lot of people lost their loved ones, and they needed medical assistance. And that $10, if we could have helped them any, I felt blessed to do so. They needed it, more than I did. I’m still going to have three meals a day. I’m not hurting for anything. When something like that happens in society, you can hear the talk around the yard that a lot of guys wish they can help.

CLAYTON KERN:

We’re in here because we made a mistake. We made a bad choice, but we’re still human, and you see that on TV. You just kind of… want to help. $10 in here is probably like a thousand out there.

Source: CBN

barry –> Perkins Coie = $1,932,067.47

March 8, 2010

Birth certificate posts

Amount of money barry has paid his personal law firm since the start of the birth certificate lawsuits. You put it together however you like. barry’s personal lawyer (and the DNC lawyer and WH counsel) is Robert Bauer of Perkins Coie.

Latest disbursement to Perkins Coie 4th quarter 2009 = $280,603.29

CUMULATIVE TOTALS BY QUARTER

Rasmussen Poll: Headed in which direction, POTUS leadership

March 3, 2010

Healthcare poll

Rasmussen Poll
3,500 likely voters, Feb 22-28, MoE +/- 1 pt

Split on leadership skills, majority believe headed in wrong direction (Dems split), and the majority believe it will become more partisan over next year, the economy increased the stress on their family and illegal aliens are strain on budget.

POTUS leadership
Good or excellent 40
Poor 41

Headed in the right direction?
No 69
Yes 25 (lowest since Jan 2009)

Leading up to inauguration < 20
Week of inauguration 27
May 2009 40 (peak)
Early Jan 2010 32

Blacks 42 (last week 60)
Whites 22
Other 31

Wrong – Right
Reps 92 – 7
Inds 74
Dems 44 – 46

Will become more partisan over next year: 65

State of economy caused more stress in family: 58

Illegal aliens a strain on US budget: 67

Opposed to further government regulation of financial system: 47

Rasmussen Poll: Healthcare

*March 19-20 Healthcare Poll

March 1, 2010

Direction country headed in, POTUS leadership

Rasmussen Poll
1000 likely voters, Feb 27-28, +/- 3 pts

Majority oppose (have since Thanksgiving), evenly split on whether it will pass this year, if it passes most think quality of care will worsen and the cost will go up (only 17% believe costs will go down) and the majority favor small bits passed at a time rather than a comprehensive bill.

Healthcare bill
Oppose 52
Favor 44
Strongly favor 22
Strongly oppose 43

Independents strongly oppose 43
Women support > men
Support lowest > 65

Trends since Thanksgiving
Anti 51-58
Pro 38-49

Pass this year?
Likely 44
Unlikely 44
Very likely 18
Not very likely 31
Not at all likely 14
Not sure 12

Pass smaller bits focused on individual problems 63
Pass comprehensive bill 27

If bill passes
Quality of health care will improve 25
Quality worsen 48
Stay the same 20

Cost of health care will go up 52
Stay the same 24
Lower costs 17

Those with insurance
Rank it as good or excellent 76
Think it’s at least somewhat likely they’ll be forced to change it 49

Executive Order of Succession Depart of Defense

MARCH 6, 2010

Why was it necessary to amend the order of succession within the Department of Defense?

Obvious changes:

2005 Order of Succession [EO 13394]
(a) Deputy Secretary of Defense;
(b) Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence;
(c) Under Secretary of Defense for Policy;
(d) Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics;
(e) Secretary of the Army;
(f) Secretary of the Air Force;
(g) Secretary of the Navy;

2010 Order of Succession

(1) Deputy Secretary of Defense;
(2) Secretary of the Army;
(3) Secretary of the Navy;
(4) Secretary of the Air Force;
(5) Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics;
(6) Under Secretary of Defense for Policy;
(7) Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller);
(8) Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness;
(9) Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence;

Full text of the executive order follows.

Another WordPress ad: Christian dating

March 6, 2010

Just documenting since WP says they can’t keep track of how many ads and which type are placed on WP blogs. Unless you pay $29.95, they put ads on your page whenever they want, on whatever page they want and how often they like.

This one was for a Christian dating service.

Wonder what the dating service would think about being linked to a site with posts about same-gender marriage and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?

(3-3) Maddow DADT: USAF Maj Mike Almy

DADT posts

March 3, 2010
Rachel Maddow Show

updated

Major Mike Almy relates how he was discharged from the USAF without having told or been asked. No one he worked with knew anything until his superiors looked through his “private” emails. Discharged at the height of the 2006 insurgency.

Maj Almy’s story in his own words (Mar 3)
Maj Almy on NPR (Feb 2)

TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS

Another WordPress ad: Aol

March 6, 2010

Documenting since WP says they are unable. This time it’s AOL autos.

If you see an ad, sure would appreciate your letting us know. And whatever you do don’t click on it. Thanks.

Name that pundit

by barrypropaganda

Hint: He appears on CNN, and has a radio show in Chicago with the call sign, “The Voice Of the Negro“.

barry pix of the day: Mirror, mirror on the wall

March 5, 2010

Cowell channels Bush’s misunderestimated…again

March 4, 2010

Simon Cowell did it again. He used Bush’s best Bushism “misunderestimated” when he talked to Crystal Bowersox after her performance. It’s not the first time he’s said it on the show either. [video] President Bush said it during his last press conference before leaving office.

Misunderestimated= misunderstood + underestimated

I think it makes perfect sense. It should be coined and attributed to Pres Bush.

SIMON COWELL:

I have to tell you something Crystal, I completely MISunderestimated you from last week, because for you to come back this week with that song, that performance – the vocal was incredible. And I promise you, this was like the moment we realized with Kelly Clarkson that we’ve got a serious artist here. And I think we’ve got a really serious artist with you. Congratualtions.

The funny part is people have transcribed his misunderestmated as underestimated. Not sure if they noticed.

Secy Clinton: 2010 International Women of Courage Awardees

March 5, 2010

2009 International Women of Courage

State Dept blog:

The annual International Women of Courage Award was started in March 2007 to recognize women around the globe who have shown exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for women’s rights and advancement. This is the only award within the Department of State that pays tribute to outstanding women leaders worldwide. It recognizes the courage and leadership shown as they struggle for social justice and human rights.

Melanne Verveer, the State Department’s first ever Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues.

These ten women have overcome personal adversity, threats, arrest, and assault to dedicate themselves to activism for human rights, From striving to give more voice to politically underrepresented women in Afghanistan to documenting human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, these heroic individuals have made it their life’s work to increase freedom and equality in the world.

The award is also meant to hopefully safeguard the women from disappearing.

2010 International Women of Courage Awardees as named by Secy Clinton on March 1st. Click on their names to read their bios.

Shukria Asil (Afghanistan) Promoting government responsiveness to the needs of women

Col Shafiqa Quraishi (Afghanistan) Integrating women into the government and police force

Androula Henriques (Cyprus) Fighting human trafficking

Sonia Pierre (Dominican Republic) Ending discrimination based on country of origin and the human rights abuses of statelessness

Shadi Sadr (Iran) Advocating for women’s legal rights and an end to execution by stoning

Ann Njogu (Kenya) Seeking social transformation and at the forefront of reforms in Kenya

Dr. Lee Ae-ran (Republic of Korea) Promoting human rights in North Korea and aiding the refugee community in the Republic of Korea

Jansila Majeed (Sri Lanka) Strengthening rights for internally displaced persons

Sister Marie Claude Naddaf (Syria) Working for social services for women

Jestina Mukoko (Zimbabwe) Documenting human rights abuses

March 10, Secy Clinton will present the awards at the State Dept. One wonders how many women will be allowed to attend. Last year, Reem Al Numery, who was forced to “marry” her 30 y/o cousin, was not allowed to leave Yemen. She went public to the BBC in her efforts to get a divorce, describing how her “husband” beat and raped her and dragged her around by her hair. Not sure if she has been granted a divorce – the legal age for marriage in Yemen is 17.