Death of Michigan police officer stated from heart condition, but, this man was well conditioned and ran regularly with his wife. Excuses, excuses

I guess all of Chicago ran out of water yesterday. It looks as though the officer, husband and father had a pre-existing condition that never stopped him before. Hm? It would seem he passed any police physicals. He just doesn't seem to 'fit the profile' of a poorly conditioned athlete regardless of any heart issue. To believe his death is totally unrelated to the heat when 302 runners were hospitalized and the race stopped half way through is unrealistic and reeks of propaganda !

Police Officer Dies While Running Chicago Marathon (Update1) (click here)

...A 12-year veteran of the Midland, Michigan, police department, Schieber was named its 2006 Officer of the Year. He was a mountain biking instructor for the department and was involved in establishing a law enforcement memorial at the department's headquarters last year, said Bob Lane, Midland Police deputy chief.
``He was just a very-well liked, very-well respected officer,'' Lane, 48, said in a telephone interview. ``He was in excellent shape. It took me totally by shock, to say the least.''
A father of three children, Schieber was running the race with his wife, Sarah, Lane said. At least 302 runners were hospitalized with heat-related ailments, according to the Chicago Tribune.
30-Year History
It was the hottest day in the 30-year history of the Chicago marathon, the Tribune said....

Heat stroke is the most serious of any heat related conditions. It constitutes a medical emergency with impending death a possibility.

Heat Stroke is different from heat cramps or exhaustion in that it causes mental disorientation.

What makes heatstroke much more severe and potentially life-threatening is that the body's normal mechanisms for dealing with heat stress, such as sweating and temperature control, are lost. The main sign of heatstroke is a markedly elevated body temperature — generally greater than 104 F — with changes in mental status ranging from personality changes to confusion and coma. Skin may be hot and dry, although in heatstroke caused by exertion, the skin is usually moist.
Other signs and symptoms may include:
Rapid heartbeat
Rapid and shallow breathing
Elevated or lowered blood pressure
Cessation of sweating
Irritability, confusion or unconsciousness
Fainting, which may be the first sign in older adults
If you suspect heatstroke:
Move the person out of the sun and into a shady or air-conditioned space.
Dial 911 or call for emergency medical assistance.
Cool the person by covering him or her with damp sheets or by spraying with cool water. Direct air onto the person with a fan or newspaper.

Scientist predicted Human Induced Global Warming is changing the course of human endurance

This didn't happen this year for everyone? There was no finish to The La Salle Bank of Chicago Marathon? There was an end to it, but, no finish. This is the year 2004 when Evans Rutto won "The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon." (click here)

Marathon cut short for first time ever (click on title to this entry)
By Josh Noel, Andrew L. Wang and Carlos Sadovi Tribune staff reporter
October 8, 2007

The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon was cut short for the first time in its history Sunday as hundreds of runners laboring across ovenlike streets were treated for heat-related illness.The stoppage happened about 3 1/2 hours after the start gun on an abnormally sweltering autumn day, amid complaints of insufficient water for more than 35,000 runners who had come from around the world to compete in one of its pre-eminent marathons.One runner, a 35-year-old Michigan police officer, died after collapsing in the race's 19th mile, but it was not clear whether the death was heat-related....

There is a lot at stake here. Scientists don't 'make up' priorities in their research simply because they want to scare the public or have money thrown at them for their research. They are ethnical people whom are exceptionally well invested in research they perform. The science surrounding the issue of Human Induced Global Warming is decades old. It tells a sad and threatening story for species on Earth including homo sapien.

Humans are not exempt this time. Humans have been able to overcome nature and it's threat to survival with extraordinary grace and agility. They have done it so well, that now the very nature of a benevolent Earth is failing and they may be running the race of their lives. Literally. One death in this race is attributable and many exhausted runners now know the REALITY of Human Induced Global Warming.

Yesterday was October 7th and the temperatures during The La Salle Bank Chicago Marathon were in the 80s Fahrenheit.

When are you all going to listen and realize this is more serious than anyone has ever contributed a value to the problem.

How does the melting of the Arctic Ocean and the impending extinction of Polar Bears relate to the mainland USA?

Now you know.

Abortion and Gay Rights aren't the ONLY minority issue suffering at the hands of Self Righteous Right Wing Christians

There is 'trending' in the USA which indicates the nation has a right to be concerned about it's future and the equality of it's people. Freedom needs to take 'serious' precident in places other than Greensboro, North Carolina.

Civil Rights wasn't supposed to end with the 14th amendment, it was supposed to start there.

Good night.

Yes, I have a clear conscious. I always do. I believe in the potential of people, not the demands of law !

When the Robert's Court decided "The Partial Birth Aborton Law," Justice Kennedy stated...

...if he heard of one case whereby a woman's life was saved because of the procedure he would have voted with the opposing Justices. Does he consider emotional distress enough of a reason? Does he consider a woman desperate enough to attempt to take her own life enough of a reason?

I do.

The decision regarding the oppression of any abortion in the USA was "W"rongly decided. It was legislation that was intended to be a Trojan Horse to promote an Evangelical Christian agenda and victimize women. Justice Kennedy didn't see that?

If Justice Kennedy needs an 'example' of the circumstances women now will be facing to end an unwanted pregnancy, it might include their lives along with the fetus.

This isn't the first case. There was another one, I think it was Nevada within the last year. Not sure the state, whereby the woman was hit with a baseball bat stating it was an accident. She shortly thereafter aborted the fetus. She as well could have died, perhaps not caring if she would. Women have to be assured they are accepted in society when they don't want a pregnancy, they will receive confidential treatment when they do decide an abortion is better than pregnancy. They need support without ridicule or embarrassment.

Abortion at any stage of pregnancy should be a woman's right. Funny, if you asked me about this a year ago, I would have stated abortion should stop at 22 weeks. Not anymore. Not now that I see what venue this is all taking. Partial Birth Abortion was never exclusively used for terminating pregnancy, but, the 'fallout' as a result of the Justices' decision is more than women in the USA are willing to live with. If having the permission 'on the books' adds balance to the ability of women to cope with life, then we are better with the law than without it.

Pregnancy is a special time to MOST women. To others it's '...the wrong time...' and still to others it is a goal they never want to achieve. To those that seek a different road then an Evangelical enthralled with her pregnant status, I state they have the right to be different. They have the right to seek whatever relief they desire to end any unwanted pregnancy. Women should never live in fear of having a uterus or ovaries, but, need to accept their bodies as vital to their lives without a second thought to any resolve they have for their life.

The Christian Extremism that resulted in the successful elevation of fetus over woman would continue until they had their precepts in place in law.

NEW HIV PREVENTION CAMPAIGN TARGETS AFRICAN-AMERICAN GAY MEN (click here)

SA couple want first gay wedding (click here)

If the Religious Right were ever to 'begin' to accomplish the tasks of engraining the American culture with their extremist agenda, it wouldn't stop at fetal rights. Every measure to destroy any other religion, along with who knows what to homosexual couples would be invoked in whatever manner it could be afforded until they had the Christian Nation of their desires.

The Gay Community is right to be up in arms regarding their Civil Rights status. The sooner we INSURE their place among the majority of Americans the safer they will be. Now. And in the future.

If we are to insure the 'safety' of our people it has to include all our people and not JUST those the majority 'deem' worthy of the rights our USA Constitution guarantees. There are no by-standers to democracy or the civil liberties written in our laws.

Pregnant Woman Stabbed in Queens

Published: July 29, 1995
A man with a knife attacked his pregnant girlfriend and two other people in the woman's apartment house in the Ridgewood section of Queens yesterday, the police said.
Waldemir Diaz, 29, of the Bronx, slashed Karl Mitteibur, 71, the owner and superintendent of the Queens apartment house shortly after 3 P.M., said a police spokesman, Officer Robert Samuel.
Mr. Diaz then dashed to the fourth-floor apartment of his pregnant girlfriend, Ingrid Jorge, 21, and stabbed her in the stomach and chest, Officer Samuel said.
Her screams attracted her neighbor, Darkys Vargas, 22, who went into Ms. Jorge's apartment, where Mr. Diaz slashed her, too, the spokesman said.
All three victims were in stable conditions in Queens hospitals, he added.

In this case the attacker was interested in killing both the fetus and the woman. No rational man with a pregnant girlfriend or wife that attempts to stab the fetus is giving second thought to the woman. If she dies with the fetus the attacker could not care less. There are tragic circumstances surrounding issues of pregnancy, but, in no way should a fetus be valued over and above the life of a woman. If it weren't for the life of women, fetus wouldn't exist.

It is an outrage to realize women desperate enough to inflict deadly wounds are considered murderers when they are more victims than anyone cares to realize. The charges in Ohio are wrong and the 'idea' that fetus have a special status separate from their mothers is hideous.

When fetus are valued by a family and the woman is known to be terminally ill, there are provisions to provide for the extended 'existance' of that woman to bring about a birth. There is clear recognition that a uterus is vital to the birth of any fetus. WOMEN have a special status because they do give birth.

To begin to jail and imprison women for the sake of saving a fetus is simply a society 'gone wrong' and one out of complete balance with the priorities naturally afforded women. The Right to Life Movement is way out of line and they only exist today in status because the Neocons pander to anyone willing to vote them into POWER.

A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation

This was the New York Times today. It bears noting. The United States of America is a secular nation whereby every citizen should have a voice.


Fetus are citizens.

The Evangelical Right Wing Neocons currently occupying the White House and evidently police departments in Ohio are attempting to build a case of "Fetal Rights." There is no such thing. There never will be. The Lacy Peterson case was widely viewed by the media and was "W"rongly decided. While the fetus died because 'it's' mother did, it had no 'right to a murder trial' separate from Lacy's trial. Allowing 'the fetus' to carry weight in sentencing is correct, but, there were NOT two charges of murder that should have been leveled, but, ONLY ONE and that one was of a woman pregnant.

The move toward 'fetal rights' is dangerous and carries with it brevity to women's rights that should never appear anywhere in a court of law. The woman mentioned that shot herself could have died. Didn't care if she did and was in dire need of professional intervention. It was a tragedy, a personal tragedy for her and anyone who loved her enough to care, but, that is where it ends. Women's lives matter over and above their ability to procreate !

...In the 1790s, in the waters off Tripoli, pirates were making sport of American shipping near the Barbary Coast. Toward the end of his second term, Washington sent Joel Barlow, the diplomat-poet, to Tripoli to settle matters, and the resulting treaty, finished after Washington left office, bought a few years of peace. Article 11 of this long-ago document says that “as the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,” there should be no cause for conflict over differences of “religious opinion” between countries....

Yesterday there was an article in "The Plains Dealer" regarding a self inflicted wound.

I don't know the ethnicity of the woman involved and that may indeed play a role in the charges that were leveled whereby police charged a woman that shot herself in the abdomin as having commited homicide of a fetus.

That's simply ludicrous.

I don't know the motives of the shooting. I don't care to know. It can be simply stated that there was a woman in enough emotional pain regarding her circumstances to attempt suicide and take the fetus with her.

Enough said regarding this incident.

What is of brevity here, is the fact the police charged a woman intent on inflicting enough harm to kill the 22 week fetus and perhaps herself. The focus to the 'intervention' by police was not about the woman and the state of her extreme and pending demise, it placed the 22 week fetus at higher importance than the woman. That is politics at work. That is taking control and victimizing the victim. It is abuse of women.

The lies and deceptions of the Bush White House - 'Benchmark' Strategy

You gotta be joking here. This is what corruption does to a military and to a government. This is a human being outfitted for war? Not in my book. This is a human being 'dropped kicked' into a war for oil the Commander and Chief has designed to support his cronies. Our military doesn't deserve this type of treatment in this type of extreme conditions without good reason and more than sufficient personnel to carry out a mission. Noted the dead soldier laying on the ground next to his pier. The equipment didn't save him, did it?


When the Democratic majority of the House and Senate set down 'benchmarks' they weren't asking 'pretty please.' The benchmarks were to be met or the USA military was no longer at the Iraqi government's disposal.

All that clear. What did Bush have to say?

Bush's latest rhetorical tactic is unlikely to win over dissatisfied voters (click on title above)
By Howard Fineman
Updated: 3:33 p.m. ET Oct 25, 2006
Oct. 25, 2006 - Remember Al Gore’s mysterious “lockbox?” Well, I have a new item to nominate for the Museum of Inert Campaign Rhetoric: “Benchmarks.” The president says that they are the keys to victory in Iraq. But if I’m a struggling Republican candidate—buffeted by winds of anger and confusion over the war—I’m not sure “benchmarks” will insure my victory on Nov. 7....

What?

Benchmarks aren't a political tool. They are measures developed by the legislature to influence the 'W'rongful use of the USA miltitary. What's so hard to understand, unless, in the minds of the moronic every legislative agenda is a political agenda. That is not what the Iraq War is or should it ever HAVE BEEN. Our military is supposed to be available to defend the USA, not victimize sovereign countries for oil and the economics of America's wealthy.


The quotes of General Petraeus at the recent Senate hearings:

One of the Republicans who is increasingly skeptical of the Iraq War strategy is outgoing Sen. John Warner of Virginia, who is retiring after 2008. While he has criticized the president's policy, he has never supported a Democratic withdrawal plan.


(Warner) :: "Are you able to say at this time if we continue what you've laid before the Congress here as a strategy, do you feel that is making America safer?" Warner asked Petraeus during a charged session of the Armed Services Committee Tuesday.


"Sir, I believe that this is indeed the best course of action to achieve our objectives in Iraq," Petraeus answered.


(Warner) :: "Does that make America safer?" Warner pressed.


"Sir, I don't know, actually," the general said. "What I have focused on and riveted on is how to accomplish the mission of the multinational force in Iraq."

Recent views of the Republican legislature (click here):

..."I think it gets to a point where we have spent enough time and enough lives and enough money in this one particular spot," said Rep. Bob Inglis, of South Carolina, who was one of 17 Republican House members who voted against the U.S. military buildup in Iraq last February.
"Our military has succeeded," Inglis said. "The question is whether Iraqi politicians can succeed. If they fail, it is not a U.S. failure. Let them go baby-sit a civil war."

While several prominent Republican senators have broken with President Bush on Iraq — notably Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and John Warner of Virginia, both of whom aren't seeking re-election — their counterparts in the House largely have backed Bush despite ebbing public support for the war.

There are signs the House Republican compliance is fading, especially as Republicans try to recapture control of Congress in next year's elections and lawmakers focus more on their campaigns.

"In general, you're going to see more of a splitting with Bush," said John Geer, a Vanderbilt University political scientist who has written extensively on congressional elections.
Republican incumbents are "going to seek mechanisms by which they can show their opposition on Iraq and gain credibility with the electorate," Geer said. "They will find ways to get those extra few votes to keep their jobs."...

There is definately and "Us and Them" to the Evangelical Christian Regime. They are God's correct populous and the rest of us are in the way.

The mission statement below is an expression of intent. The FACT these ministries have aligned themselves politically with one party willing to transform them into a warring power is more than worrisome for the elections one might loss. It is a force to contend with and there is absolutely no way their 'dogma' should ever transcend American Policy of ANY KIND. This is treason of the USA Constitution.

Evangelize they may. Convert the nation of the USA to a 'strategy' that feeds war, killing and international destabilization is facism (click here).

mission statement


The American Evangelical Christian Churches (AECC) believes everyone should enjoy the freedom to proclaim the Word of God as imparted to them by the Holy Spirit. Our mission is to serve our immediate church community by implementing the Great Commission in Matthew 28: 18-20 and ministering to the needs of God's people (Matthew 25: 34-40). In order to accomplish this we reach out and accept into membership those who believe the Bible to be the unerring Word of God and are called into His ministry. Our mission is to create a body of believers where we as individuals can realize God in our lives and model, teach, call forth, and celebrate the integrity of the spirit, mind and body in all that we do.

The article at this title link is from today's newsprint at the Los Angeles Times

The Democrats put forward a great candidates in 2004. What happened exactly? Was Kerry defeated because of policy? Character? Or simply by character assassination?

I consider the strategic move by Bush regarding SCHIP another political strategy of Georgie's agenda. In my neck of the woods (there is still a woods, right?), this is called "...throw the dog a bone...." Object to perfectly good legislation that will insure the nation's children from any adverse outcome and APPEAR to offer a real objection. Therefore, it's not Bush that has the problem, but, the Democrats and those that LACKED his superior intellect to 'see the real problem.' He isn't stating what his 'specific' changes would be because he doesn't know what they should be. He will allow the 'subservient' and 'inferior' Democratic legislature to play around with proposals until he basically thinks it 'appears' a 'proper' form of legislation.

He doesn't care about the nation, he wants to play politics. He objects to 'adults' because he thinks no one in the USA realizes there is an adult component to SCHIP. He threw it 'out there' to 'shock and awe' the Americans that ridiculed him 'unwittingly' in favor of a Democratic program. It's a strategy.

Of course there are adults included in SCHIP, especially if they were raised in Foster Homes and grew up with that insurance. Of course there are adults when PRE-NATAL care is afforded women who can't pay for it otherwise. Of course there are adults included in a program when there health and ability to work are impeded and as 'minors' were never able to work or build a Social Security Trust Fund.

But, that isn't the issue after all. It's just that MOST of the recipients of SCHIP are children. That is who is most important in this legislation as a majority. But, Bush is using this legislative 'opportunity' just as he uses the Iraq War and Evangelical Religion to promote 'party politics.' We don't have a president or vice; the USA does have a figure head that plays politics with lives and the USA Treasury with the cunning of a fox.

Bush calls for compromise on children's healthcare (click title of entry)


The president still has not said what specific changes he wants to make to the bill, though he wants adults moved off the program.


By Judy Pasternak
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 7, 2007


WASHINGTON -- President Bush indicated Saturday that he would be willing to accept a larger increase for a children's health insurance program than the one he has proposed, but defended his veto of the expansion of coverage approved by Congress.Bush's long-promised veto Wednesday set off an ideological battle about who holds responsibility for extending healthcare benefits to uninsured children: the government or the private sector.The congressional bill would spend $60 billion over five years to expand health coverage for children of the working poor and middle class, and pay for it with higher tobacco taxes. Bush has offered $30 billion, a 20% increase from the current levels but not enough to maintain the existing enrollment in the State Children's Health Insurance Program, budget analysts say....

1 Corinthians 13 is not the same for everyone? Click on this title to a link that has sound of the entire passage.

The drop down screen obviously takes a viewer to many interpretations, however, not every venue has sound, "The New International Verson" does have sound.

This 'spiritual note' above and at the bottom of the listed Bible entries are 'applications' of this passage in secular literature. Realizing how people incorporate what they find inspirational into writing that many people, with and without a perscribed faith, will read and also find inspirational leads to the point that a democracy can 'contain' the same values regardless of the 'particular' value systems of it's members. It is those value systems and their diversity which is an incredible feat of the American experience. The Evangelical Christians seeking domination of the people of this nation and the policies of the USA want to take that 'miracle' called The United States of America away from us.

The USA 'has been' a marvelous example of tolerance with a 'melting pot' heritage. Who among us doesn't love corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day or Misteltoe at Christmas or Pizza from the local 'take out?' Who among us can't appreciate the 'difference' of the colors of the rainbow or realize the 'common' plight a health issue such as cancer presents? Dearly few, so what is the problem in the tolerance of Evangelical Christians when it comes to realizing they need to RESPECT the laws that apply to all this nation rather than a limited population.

I would like to know the number of Jewish Synagogues that have closed down over the past seven years and how many have opened. You won't readily find those numbers anywhere as a measure to the spiritual health of the USA. I also wonder how many relish in that thought in the Conservative Christian community and how many feel the destruction of the Islamic Holy Land is a measure of progress. Oh, it exists. I know it does. These are not 'bitter' words, they are words of concern. The demise of any culture is not the answer to the world's problems. Quite the contrary.


1 Corinthians 13:11

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I no longer used childish ways.

King James Bible
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

American Standard Version
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

Bible in Basic English
When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

Darby Bible Translation
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

English Revised Version
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

Tyndale New Testament
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I imagined as a child: but as soon as I was a man I put away childishness.

Weymouth New Testament
When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

Webster's Bible Translation
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

World English Bible
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

Young's Literal Translation
When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

'When I was a child I thought as a child ...': the importance of memory in constructions of childhood and social order in a selection of post-disaster fictions.
Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, September, 2005 by Braithwaite, Elizabeth

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4926/is_200509/ai_n18067828


When I Was a Child I Thought as a Child
Roger Parham-Brown
Callaloo, No. 30 (Winter, 1987), pp. 55-70
doi:10.2307/2930635
This article consists of 16 page(s).

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0161-2492(198724)30%3C55%3AWIWACI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K

Don't talk to me about how wonderful Neocons were, including Giuliani, following September 11, 2001. They completely neglected an entire community.

These are people. There are a lot more biological entities on Earth besides people, but, these are the biological entities the Religious Right seems focused on to convert and control.

I believe Homosexuals are people, too. They are citizens with equal standing in the USA no different than Heterosexuals. I believe all people of equal standing have the same civil rights. I believe the Homosexual community of the USA is oppressed, degraded due to the current regime occupying the White House known as Neocons.

I believe every woman has a mind. I believe every woman has the right to allow whatever dignity she can find in this life to be hers. If that includes limiting her childbearing to only one or two or maybe none then she has the right and OBLIGATION to HERSELF to seek proper medical treatment to cause an abortion in as safe as manner as possible to secure THE RIGHT TO HER OWN LIFE as she can possibly find.

I believe every person has the right to define their own lives and pursue whatever forms of happiness they desire unimpeded.

The Right Wing Christian Neocons of which James Dobson is obviously a member have absolutely no right to determine the fate of any American, man, woman or child. They have no right to bring overbearing and burdensome policy to the rights of women, children or homosexuals.

They are bigots, sexist and seek to control the USA military beyond a shadow of a doubt for global domination of resources that allow their wealth to grow while causing demise of the cultures they choose to lay waste !

As an American raised by an American family, I had a very interesting childhood into young adulthood.

I lived in a predominantly Caucasian town, but, my neighborhood was multicultural. There were Jewish kids, Catholics, Greek and Russian Orthodox. I don't remember any Muslim kids. My loss. There were Italian kids, Polish kids, Russian kids, Hispanic kids and a token Black kid. We didn't invite the minorities into the neighborhood, you understand, they lived there.

We were all different but we were all the same. Lower Middle Class with modest methods of enjoyment and attire, but, we were great together. I haven't asked lately, but, if one were to ask the staff at my former High School which graduating class was the most memorable, they would tell anyone for years to follow it was clearly the Class of '73. The truth. No lie.

As one of the kids in the neighborhood growing up, it was important to have a bike. And there all kinds of bikes. Bikes with high rise handle bars, some with cable brakes and some with gear shift levers. There were blue bikes and black bikes and green bikes and red bikes. Each one different from the other. It was important to have shiny chrome wheels. Clean bikes, they had to be clean bikes.

Everyone of us were different from each other. We celebrated the holidays differently, we went to different places of worship, some didn't worship at all, but, we were never so different that we didn't have playmates. We found commonality in our difference by being fascinated with the same things as we grew up.

The time I remember we all were happy, inventive and enjoying each other was on a summer day when a breeze was blowing. I brought out a section of stiff cardboard from the basement of the house out of complete boredom and cut a piece that would fit perfectly between the frame of my bike and the spokes of my front wheel. I jumped on my bike and raced down the street and this completely delightful noise filled the air. It was no time when all the neighborhood kids heard me and well you can guess the rest. They all wanted to make noise as well. I was pleased I had enough cardboard and fasteners for all of them. The adults didn't pay attention, were absorbed in their own worlds while the children of the neighborhood loved the joy of wonderment and learning.

That is my America. That is the America I grew up with. Diverse. Interactive. WITHOUT computers or I-Pods or DVDs, but, only radios that played FM and telephones with an extension cord. No barriers. No hatred. Nobody was right, nobody was wrong, we all lived and loved and got by with what we had while laughing and smiling through our own entertainment with our lives.

Now, I obviously have a computer. I have DVDs. I listen to more than just FM radio. But, it's still the same America to me and the changes that have occurred over the past seven years under this current 'regime' in DC has me worried about the tolerance of each other and the stability of my country. The USA is becoming a blight on Earth and that above all else has to precede any 'ideology' of perfection a MINORITY of religious devotees desires as the precepts to government.

I doubt many people are going to 'appreciate' what I have to write about tonight; but; as an American woman anchored in the belief all people can find a way to get along; this needs to be done. I will not stand by and have my country victimized by obsessed religious bigots.



I



WILL



NOT !!!!!

It's Sunday Night

"A Town Called Hypocrisy" by Lostprophets

Soundtack (click here)

Video (click here)


Can you take this broken boy?
And put the pieces back as one?
Though he has all of his toys...
He is never having fun
Because it's not enough

Now we're growing up

We are giving up

We are moving on
Because its not enough
We were growing up
We are giving up
And I won't hear what you say so…

Save your sympathy
Who do you think you're fooling?
Everything is dead!
Now you welcome me,
To a town called hypocrisy

Save your sympathy
Who do you think you're fooling?
Everything is dead!
Now you welcome me,
To a town called hypocrisy

(Town Called Hypocrisy)

Can you take this lonely girl?
I pick her up from off the ground
'cause theres no pride, to be found
When you follow sheep around
And no future here, no future
For us in this town

Because it's not enough
Now we're growing up
We are giving up
We are moving on
Because its not enough
We were growing up
We are giving up
And I won't hear what you say so…

Save your sympathy
Who do you think you're fooling?
Everything is dead!
Now you welcome me,
To a town called hypocrisy

Save your sympathy
Who do you think you're fooling?
Everything is dead!
Now you welcome me,
To a town called hypocrisy

La la la
Lalalalalalalala la la
Lalalalalalalala la la
Lalalalalalalala la la
(lalalalalalalala la la)

Because it's not enough
Now we're growing up
(lalalalalalalala la la)
We are giving up
We are moving on
(lalalalalalalala la la)
Because its not enough
We were growing up
(lalalalalalalala la la)
We are giving up
And I won't hear what you say so…

Save your sympathy
Who do you think you're fooling?
Everything is dead!
Now you welcome me,
To a town called hypocrisy

Save your sympathy
Who do you think you're fooling?
Everything is dead!
Now you welcome me,
To a town called hypocrisy

I'll pursue minority issues tomorrow.

The charges against a woman in Cleveland is an example the 'extremism' the laws in the USA are taking in regard to any 'religiously' influenced social issue.

The 'idea' that anyone would shoot themselves has to be met with an appalling reality that the individual was attempting suicide. Indeed, there are large vessels in the abdomin of any person that can cause a person to bleed to death. The placenta is an organ that is vascular rich and if punctured could have caused the death of the woman and the fetus. This was an insane moment for that woman no matter the reason it was triggered.

Then to realize the police come along and further victimize an already unstable woman for the sake of 'fetal rights' which doesn't even exist is appalling.

The circumstances of this Cleveland woman is more than worrisome. The police are more concerned about the death of an unborn child than the woman that attempted to kill herself.

Realizing 'the shift' in the priorities of police in regard to the issue of abortion, it is an excellant time to reflect on the fact the courts have not been a friend to woman and women's rights. They have not been a friend to minorities or minority rights. The 'face' of the USA has progressed in a direction that is detrimental to it's most vulnerable citizens.

A fetus is not a citizen until it is born.

Gays are citizens and are chronically met with discrimination in regard to the status of civil rights and marriage.

I hadn't realize how much we are all falling victim to the Right Wing and it's Christian Conservative network.

I'll look at these issues tomorrow evening. I think everyone knows how wrong this thinking is and how victimized the populous of the USA has become under this current President, Vice and former majority Republican Senate and House.

Time to put it on record. Women are beginning to show signs of distress in the face of reversal of their rights and this is only one example. The Robert's Court has pushed American Civil Rights back over a half decade. I find it appalling and anyone that cares about the 'trend' in social politics realizes this is an early warning shot we all need to pay attention to.

The USA is troubled and it has been less than a year since some astounding decisions facilitated by Justice Kennedy. I never expected this level of incompetency with him. Never.

...tomorrow then...

Morning Papers - It's Origins

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

It's getting scary in healthcare. NOW, people aren't even going to be seeing physicians, but, ONLY pharmacists. HELP !! "...allergic to anything..."

Microsoft: trust us with your health records (and DDR in the 1790's) (click here)

Now I can understand how storing personal health records on an I-Pod or a simple CD can 'insure' continuity in care, BUT, to provide global access to everyone's medical record is simply an invasion of privacy and increases the risks of errors and misidentification. What if you're unconscious and can't identify 'the file' the doctor just pulled off the internet as yours? What then? Bush's desperation for an economy is dangerous to American citizens. No doubt in my mind. It's expoitive. We need consumer protection and advocacy. There isn't a Republican government in sight that will provide it.

Michael Moore Today

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

"Culture of Life"

American SiCKO Reggie Cervantes joins Oklahoma rally to save U.S. children

Bush Veto Decried At Oklahoma Rally
2 Dozen Protest Bill At Rep. Fallin's Office
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY -- About two-dozen people protested President George W. Bush's veto of a children's health care bill on Thursday outside the Oklahoma City office of U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin, R-Okla.
The protesters included Reggie Cervantes, a 9/11 emergency responder who was featured in Michael Moore's film, "Sicko."
Cervantes, who recently moved to Oklahoma City, and two other ground zero workers traveled with Moore to Cuba to get health care after having problems getting treatment in New York. sponsor
She said the president was hurting America's future by vetoing legislation to expand the number of children who qualify for Medicaid.
"If our children are not healthy enough to learn, then we can't thrive as a country," said Cervantes, who has two children, ages 8 and 10.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10350



California group launches campaign to put Gore's name on primary ballots
Jason Rhyne
Published: Wednesday October 3, 2007
Al Gore still hasn't definitively ruled out a bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president -- and until he does, one hopeful California group is assuming no news is good news.
California Draft Gore, a grassroots political action committee, has hatched a plan to get their reluctant candidate off of theoretical fantasy polls and onto a real-life primary ballot.
Capitalizing on a provision of the state election law which allows for any name to be placed on a ballot provided enough signatures in favor of that candidate are secured, volunteers will begin scrambling next week to get 26,500 registered Democrats -- 500 from each of California's 53 congressional districts -- to sign off on the former vice president before a Dec. 4 deadline.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/California_group_launches_campaign_to_put_1003.html


Welcome to the America for Gore Grassroots Coalition
America for Gore is pleased to bring you links, information and action alerts to many of the campaigns working to make
Al Gore the President of the United States in 2009. Use this site as a portal to the universe of Al Gore supporters.
We also have actions you can take to help bring him to the White House as our next president.

http://www.americaforgore.org/



"The health and development of many low and moderate income children will be compromised, with serious consequences for their individual futures."

October 4th, 2007 1:52 pm
Families Brace for SCHIP Demise
Many Poorer Families Fear Presidential Veto Threatens Their Chidren's Health Care
By Carla Williams / ABC News Medical Unit
Oct. 4, 2007 — Carolyn Taylor, a full-time nursing assistant and medical technician, works hard to ensure that she is able to provide for her 11-year-old son Keith. But on Monday, she — along with thousands of others — took time off to rally in support of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
"The rally was to let Bush know we need health insurance for our children," said Taylor, a Baltimore resident. "We wanted to let President Bush know we are real people. He said there would be no child left behind. Well, we're getting left behind unless he continues SCHIP."
Gathering on the White House lawn and the steps of Congress, the throngs were joined by children who pulled red wagons filled with over a million petitions, urging Congress to expand health insurance coverage for children.
Yet, it appears that the effort may be in vain after Bush vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have renewed and expanded SCHIP.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10338



Democrats Begin SCHIP Veto Override Campaign
With a presidential veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) now official, Congressional Democrats have formally embarked on a campaign to find the 15 to 20 votes from House Republicans they will need to override President Bush's veto pen.
Aides say because the $35 billion expansion of the program originated in the House, that chamber will go first in its attempt to override Bush's third veto ever as president (his veto of the Water Development Act today makes four). That vote is likely to come during the week of Oct. 15, leaving two more weeks for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to exert political pressure on any wavering Republicans. The Senate will follow suit, presumably only if the House secures the two-thirds majority of those present -- the voting ratio that is required by the Constitution to beat a presidential veto. The Senate already has enough votes, 67, to defeat Bush's veto, so all the drama is on the House side for this showdown.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/10/democrats_begin_schip_veto_ove.html?hpid=topnews



Hypocritical congressional Democrats should return $3,900,000 to
Dems who condemned MoveOn took its cash
By: Kenneth P. Vogel
October 1, 2007 08:54 PM EST
Forty-four congressional Democrats who voted to condemn MoveOn.org for its ad branding Army Gen. David Petraeus "General Betray Us" have accepted more than $3.9 million in contributions from the influential anti-war group and its members.
Among those who opposed resolutions specifically repudiating the full-page ad in The New York Times, only 17 Democrats and one independent took cash from the group and its members — contributions totaling almost $1.4 million.
The resolutions approved by the House, calling the ad an “unwarranted personal attack,” were only symbolic. But the split of MoveOn beneficiaries on the votes highlights something of a rift between Democrats and the anti-war activists who largely fuel MoveOn.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=571844E1-3048-5C12-001EA58BF7E09840



Health Care for All

http://www.moveon.org/


October 1st, 2007 3:00 pm
Hooley blasts Bush's "stonewalling" of Congress
By Jeff Kosseff / The Oregonian
WASHINGTON -- In an interview Friday afternoon, Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-Ore., described the frustration that caused her to introduce a resolution calling for "full cooperation" from the Bush administration with congressional investigations.
Hooley, who unlike some other Democrats has not ruled out the possibility of impeachment, said she was prompted by Bush administration statements that it would invoke executive privilege for congressional oversight attempts and oppose subpoenas of White House officials for congressional investigations.
"One of our constitutional responsibilities is oversight," Hooley said. "There's a reason we have a system of checks and balances. I feel very strongly that we need to be doing our job and we need the president not to be stonewalling us."

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10315



The too-young-to-vote crowd marches to stop Bush health care veto

October 2nd, 2007 3:29 pm
Kids March to Stop Bush SCHIP Veto
By Matthew Jaffe / ABC News
Kids took health care into their own hands Monday, marching to the White House and pleading with the president not to fulfill his veto threat of the $35 billion children's health insurance expansion passed by both houses of Congress last week.
Twenty-five children, and at least as many adults, pulled nine red Radio Flyer wagons loaded with more than a million petitions to the White House gates chanting "Health care, not warfare," "Care for kids" and "Sign the bill!"
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., joined their rally and spoke out against the president's expected veto, calling the SCHIP bill "the test of greatness for a nation is how it cares for its children. On that issue, we put children first. That is why this legislation is so important."

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10328



Most Americans want war funding cut,health care expanded

October 2nd, 2007 6:19 pm
Most Americans want Iraq war funding cut: poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans oppose fully funding President George W. Bush's $190 billion request to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while a majority supports expanding a children's health care program he has threatened to veto, a Washington Post-ABC News poll shows.
The poll published on Tuesday also shows deep dissatisfaction with the president and with Congress, partly because of the stalemate between Democrats and the White House over Iraq policy, The Washington Post reported.
Bush's approval rating stands at 33 percent, equal to his all-time low in this poll and just 29 percent approve of the job Congress is doing -- a 14-point drop since Democrats took control in January, the newspaper said.
More than eight in 10 liberal Democrats said Congress has been too restrained in challenging Bush's Iraq policy; about the same percentage of conservative Republicans said it has been too aggressive and a narrow majority of independents, 53 percent, want Congress to do more, the Post reported.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10330



Host a Rally for Our Children's Health Care
Thanks for hosting a Rally for Children's Health Care. Here are a few things to think about when deciding where your event should be:

Congressional offices: If your representative has an office in your community, you should hold your event outside of it. The only exceptions are offices in out-of-the-way places, like office parks.

High visibility locations: If your representative doesn't have an office in your community, or it's in an out-of-the-way place, you should hold your event in a central location. Parks and town squares are often great bets. Just make sure that there is enough room for everyone to be on public property and it will have fairly high foot or vehicle traffic.

If there are multiple representative's nearby: Some of you have multiple members of Congress in your community. In that case, you should target the one who voted against children's health care recently. You can look that up here. If multiple representatives voted the wrong way, just choose one.

http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/create.html?r=3023&action_id=97



H.R.676
Title: To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 1/24/2007) Cosponsors (84)
Latest Major Action: 2/2/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00676:@@@N



Make Sure Your Rep. Supports H.R. 676
"Which congressional district am I in?"
CLiCK here and enter your address to find out.
If there is already a green check next to your Representative's name, don't hesitate to thank them.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/what-can-i-do/boxscore/index.php?action=print



October 1st, 2007 3:00 pm
Hooley blasts Bush's "stonewalling" of Congress
By Jeff Kosseff / The Oregonian
WASHINGTON -- In an interview Friday afternoon, Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-Ore., described the frustration that caused her to introduce a resolution calling for "full cooperation" from the Bush administration with congressional investigations.
Hooley, who unlike some other Democrats has not ruled out the possibility of impeachment, said she was prompted by Bush administration statements that it would invoke executive privilege for congressional oversight attempts and oppose subpoenas of White House officials for congressional investigations.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10315



War protester bursts White House bubble, briefly
by Frank James
President Bush doesn't like to see protesters at his events. No president does really. The job is stressful enough without them. Plus most presidents enjoy being accorded great respect. It's something they get used to.
Staffers in the Bush White House and on the president's campaigns know this president especially doesn't want to spot protesters at his events, no more than he wants to hear a reporter's cell phone ring at a presidential press conference.
Bush aides and campaigns have well-deserved reputations for screening people who get into the president's events to make sure protesters don't get in. And when they've managed to slip into an event in the past, they usually were quickly ushered out.
All of which makes it remarkable that a woman named Sherry Wolfe was able to get into, and apparently allowed to stay in, a Bush appearance in Lancaster, Pa. today at which he spoke to the local chamber of commerce about fiscal discipline.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/war_protester_amazingly.html



Army Sgt. 1st Class Brent A. Adams
40, of West View, Pa.; assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, Washington, Pa.; killed Dec. 1 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military five-ton truck during combat operations in Ramadi, Iraq.

http://www.militarycity.com/valor/1394169.html



October 3rd, 2007 12:17 pm
Bush vetoes child health insurance plan
By Jennifer Loven / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Bush, in a sharp confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance.
It was only the fourth veto of Bush's presidency, and one that some Republicans feared could carry steep risks for their party in next year's elections. The Senate approved the bill with enough votes to override the veto, but the margin in the House fell short of the required number.
Democrats unleashed a stream of harsh rhetoric, as they geared up for a battle to both improve their chances of winning a veto override and score political points against Republicans who oppose the expansion.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., decried Bush's action as a "heartless veto."
"Never has it been clearer how detached President Bush is from the priorities of the American people," Reid said in a statement. "By vetoing a bipartisan bill to renew the successful Children's Health Insurance Program, President Bush is denying health care to millions of low-income kids in America."

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10332



October 3rd, 2007 3:20 pm
Iraq follows Bush to Lancaster
By John L. Micek / The Morning Call
LANCASTER - Concerns about the Iraq war -- and its cost in lives and tax dollars -- followed President Bush today to an event hosted by the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce.
In this Republican-friendly heartland to warn congressional Democrats about overspending, Bush took audience questions. The first, from Gerry Beane, a Realtor from Manheim Township, targeted the war.
Citing polls, Beane told the president: "We've reached the point where the majority of the country doesn't want to see another $190 billion going to Iraq. I hope I can say to you man-to-man and taxpayer-to-taxpayer that we need to stop that spending and bring them [U.S. troops] home."
Emotion crept into the president's voice as he answered, starting by saying he wasn't going to debate polls. Bush noted planned troop withdrawals, and vowed that as long as U.S. troops are in Iraq the nation would spend whatever it takes on their behalf.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10336



October 3rd, 2007 4:07 am
In Oregon, 'Impeach' is not just a bumper sticker
Politics - More anti-Bush activists take up the chant, even as Democratic leaders call the demand unrealistic
By Harry Esteve and Charles Pope / The Oregonian
Every Thursday, they gather outside the congressman's office, a sign-waving brigade of activists with one word on their minds -- and their T-shirts:
"IMPEACH."
"It can happen," says John Bradach, one of the organizers of the weekly protest outside U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer's headquarters in Northeast Portland. "And it should, even in the limited time left."
Bradach joined the impeachment cause after losing a nephew in the Iraq war. But passion won't change political reality.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10331


October 5th, 2007 5:52 pm
Colorado Student Newspaper Editor Admonished But Will Keep Job in Bush F-Word Editorial Debacle
Associated Press
DENVER — The student editor of the Colorado State University newspaper was admonished Thursday for the paper's use of an obscenity in an editorial about President Bush but David McSwane will be allowed to keep his job.
The decision came after a closed door meeting by the board which oversees student media at the school.
The Board of Student Communications released a statement saying that they found that McSwane violated the Rocky Mountain Collegian's code of ethics, which bars "profane or vulgar words" in opinion writing. The board also had the power to fire him or demote him.
McSwane canceled a press conference he had scheduled to respond to the board's decision and declined comment. He has 20 days to appeal the board's decision.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10367


October 5th, 2007 8:32 pm
A redwood sanctuary
By Jennifer Wadsworth / Tracy Press
An anonymous millionaire donated a building near the Russian River so Nadia McCaffrey can create a retreat for troubled veterans who return from Iraq.
Nestled in the Redwoods, overlooking a vineyard on one side and the Russian River on the other, the four-story veterans retreat looks exactly like the restful getaway Tracy activist Nadia McCaffrey envisioned.
For three years since her son Sgt. Patrick McCaffrey died on a special mission in Iraq, McCaffrey has traveled cross-country to raise awareness and money to help veterans re-enter civilian life. Her mission is to help soldiers returning from combat with injuries – whether physical or mental, like post traumatic stress disorder — recover peacefully, instead of relying on limited treatment from government clinics.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10369


October 4th, 2007
"What on Earth makes you think a Democrat is going to be elected next year when they don't even have the spine to take the victory that's been handed to them and do something with it" -- Michael Moore


October 4th, 2007 2:52 pm
Moore lecture lives up to its billing
Controversial filmmaker takes on health care, education, political leaders
By Kevin Fryling / UB Reporter
Controversial award-winning documentarian Michael Moore lived up to his billing this weekend, delivering a nearly three-hour address in Alumni Arena that featured his trademark blend of humor and outspoken, incisive criticism against the American health care system, education system and leaders on both sides of the political aisle.
The appearance by Moore—the inaugural speaker in UB's 21st annual Distinguished Speakers Series—was his first before a college audience outside Michigan in three years.
A director who's taken on big business, gun violence, health care and the war in Iraq in such award-winning documentaries as "Roger and Me," "Bowling for Columbine," "Sicko" and "Fahrenheit 9/11"—the highest grossing documentary of all time—Moore told his audience that all his most recent films have been asking the same central question: "Who are we as a people?"

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/index.php?id=10340


Thursday, October 4th, 2007
'Imagine Peace' ...by Cindy Sheehan
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
John Winston Ono Lennon
October 9, 1940-December 8, 1980
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono Lennon
On October 9th, on what would have been John Lennon's 67th birthday, his widow, Yoko Ono is dedicating a peace tower in Reykjavik, Iceland in the memory of her husband. There will also be almost a half a million peace wishes buried in capsules around the tower which is a blue tower of light extending up to the sky above us.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=925

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