tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48958954148282062732024-03-05T12:05:26.066-05:00The Truth Without LimitsCity, State, and National Commentary based on politics, news, simple interests, and consumerism. Any of the views, opinions, or beliefs on this page DO NOT reflect that of the Dearborn Press & Guide or the News Herald in any way.Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-83986426300916156272017-02-09T14:42:00.000-05:002017-02-09T14:50:38.150-05:00Michigan for Revolution at Leon's Family Dining, Dearborn!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Yes,
I’m a snowflake, but I am not whining because I’m a liberal, or libtard as I’ve
been called. I am not a bleeding heart, I am a moderate. I am not a democrat, I
am an Independent. I am no longer a Christian, I am not a Muslim, I am an atheist.
Therefore, I choose not to be led by the Torah, Quran, or the Bible. Propagandized
media, preached for sensationalism and ratings, does not lead me. I do not fear
Muslims, any more than I fear Christians. I do not fear illegals, or refugees. I
do not fear instilled threats of Islamic terrorism. However, I am afraid of the
broad stance of homophobia, xenophilia, or islamophobia that has increased with
this current regime. I am also highly concerned of the rights Americans are
going to lose do to a high level of corporate control. While the country is divided
over race and religion, behind our backs, our rights, and the rights of our
children, are being signed over to our new owners, the billionaire class. I am
afraid that led in by fear, unknowingly, the people are supporting anti-constitutional
laws, in the guise of God, terrorism, or job creation. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Over 20 years ago, I shared with a colleague,
Charles Noble Esq, that I believed, due to the sever loss of our rights, that
there would be a revolution within the next 20 to 25 years. Here we are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Yes,
I am afraid, but I am not going to whine. I am not going to argue with the
ignorant or the uneducated. I am not going to explain facts to those that
believe in the alternative. I am going to rise. I am going to hold up those
that choose to rise along with me. Intelligently, we choose to take a proactive
stance and resist, non violently, and in numbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I
was invited to a meeting held by Michigan For Revolution by my bestie, Jill
Megdall. This meeting was a new branch of a resistance group already solid in
Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Ayman Khafagi came to ignite a chapter of the grassroots
movement in Dearborn/Dearborn Heights. It seems to be working.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I
attended. I was impressed. I am very knowledgeable where politics and billionaires
are concerned. Ayman impressed me. He shared my sentiment on many issues. He
was informed. His base tool was fact and it was an awesome way to draw me in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Yes,
this is a political revolution. We intend on making our representatives and
senators work for us, as they should. We will let it be known, that if they
vote against their constituents, they will not be reelected. If they take
money, we will not support you. If you continue to sell us out, we will vote
you out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We
can all begin to loosen the grip of Wall Street by taking our money out of the
banks and depositing it in a credit union. Look at the big move against Wells
Fargo for their support of DAPL, Seattle just took three billion dollars away
from them. Good job, Seattle. That’s a little step that can tell them, in
numbers, that we are serious. They understand numbers, it’s usually what ends
up in their total balance line at the end of the month. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We
must involve ourselves in local governments. We will no longer turn our heads
and ignore what goes on in the lives of every elected position in our city,
county, or state, or country. We will only vote in progressive ideas, based in the freedoms
of our constitution. We are done tolerating lies, propaganda, and fear. We aren’t
afraid to stand up, we aren’t afraid to be Americans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We
need to show up and stand tall. We are what our soldiers have fought and died
for, not Cheney’s Haliburton, not Koch’s Keystone XL, not Bush’s oil, and
certainly not Trump Towers. Many gave their limbs, and too many gave their
lives, all we have to give is our time, our true American intelligence, and our
attendance, to preserve what they sacrificed too much to preserve, our
freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We
are the middle and working class. We are the crux of America. Without us, the
billionaires fail. They can out source our jobs, we will buy from only local and
small business. We, again, like in the seventies, should only buy American. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We’ve
been lazy and we’ve dropped the ball. It’s time to unite, as one, and stand
tall, like our lady who stands alone in the cold waters of the Alantic.
Through uniting in diversity, we will conquer our suppressers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">There
is another Michigan For Revolution meeting again tonight. I may not be able to
make it due to some medical issues, but I’m going to see if we can do Facebook
live, (while we are still allowed) for those who want to attend, but can’t. If not, check us out, stop by, join us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
meeting will be held at Leon’s Family Dining on Michigan Ave., just east of
Telegraph on the north side of the street, in Dearborn. We will be in a banquet
room at 7. Hope to see you there!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Gathered
snowflakes can become an avalanche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Thanks
for your support,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">When are people going to get it? When did people become
so frozen in their emotions they lost logic? Critical thinking has gone
out the window, intellectualism has become ignorance, and people just don't get
it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">When you sit on Facebook and spew all of your hate and
anger, you show the world how incredibly weak and dumbed down Americans
have become. On a global scale, look at us. We're a joke, we're hypocrites,
we're liars, we're bullies, and no matter what our societies believe, the world
sees the truth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">White people, Black Lives <i>really do</i> Matter. I’m sorry
that racism is so huge in this country, you are blinded by your whiteness.
I’m sorry that black people are being slayed, daily, to get the ignorant
whites to support severe police brutality, or in other words, Martial Law. You
push pro police memes and post angry comments like, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">then don’t get in trouble with the police, then.</i> (Just know, I always
hear the unsaid <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">humph</i> and see the
sticking out tongue that goes along with that mentality.) I’m sorry, white
people, I was raised in Dearborn, circa 1959. I am as white as you, so I fully
understand what you mean when you throw your support behind the cops that kill.
If it was in your city, would it be acceptable to you? If it was your child or
grandchild would you defend the officer that killed her and recite: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">well she stole 3 c.d.’s, six years ago, she
was a criminal, she deserved it?</i> One of the harsh realities is many think, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">how could it happen to my child, they’re not
black.</i> I grew up watching that attitude. Admittingly, I am guilty of many
racial thoughts, in my past. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was the
politic of Dearborn. I lived the ordinances that were created to keep blacks
out of the city. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Yes, white people, you don’t
want to live in black communities and you don’t want <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">them</i> in yours. You say it’s the blacks that crate the ghettos. Again,
if you knew the facts, you may get it. You may understand why Black Lives
Matter. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Here, I have to throw in the newest Facebook meme: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anyone caught rioting should be banned from
welfare for the rest of their lives. </i>Yes, white people, many of you believe
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only blacks</i> riot. They, obviously, think
that sixteen-year-old rioters, will grow up to be dependent on the system, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because that’s how black people are</i>. Your
remedy is to pose economic sanctions on an already strained situation? Criminals
should be tried in our judicial system. I swear, it’s like there was a glitch
in programming and your mind went blank. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Christians, I truly do respect your choice of dogma. I,
also, respect Mormons, Catholics, Jewish, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Scientologists,
and every other religion on this earth. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
respect all religions; I do not think prayer should be said in public schools.
I don’t get it. I went to school with so many of you that consistently post: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bring prayer back into our schools</i>. I’m
fifty-seven years old. We didn’t have prayer in public school, at least not in
Dearborn, nor have any of my children, except when they were in Catholic schools.
It was my choice to put my children in a school that recited prayer. So please, stop with that. Prayer has no business in the public
school arena. If you want your children to pray in school, put them in a
private school. That’s how that works. Unless of course, you want to clutter
the student’s day with prayers from all religions perceivable. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Don’t even try the really uneducated excuse: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">America was founded on Christian values</i>.
It is not true. Yes, you’ll argue, you’ll put me down for saying it, but you
won’t research and seek the truth. If you attempt, it will be with citations
from the Christian Science Monitor, not a history book. Holy cow, some of actually
believe the earth is only 6,000 years old. So, please, stop, or don’t. Just
know when you do post those things, intelligent people, the ones with the
facts, are shaking their head. (Oh, and that other favorite, where bibles aren’t
allowed in schools, well, I’m sure, if it was carried and read on a student’s
free time, the Gestapo wouldn’t come and seize their book. At least, not yet.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Another feather ruffling issue for me is, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Drug test Welfare recipients, because
I had to pee in a cup to pay for them."</i> <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I do laugh at you guys, while I’m shaking my
head. Really?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Americans stand in lines,
with little cups, willfully. We have to submit body fluids to our employers and
our government. Let that sink in. Why are you complaining: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why do we have to and they don’t?</i> (Again, I hear the, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s not fair,</i> whine.) When the real
question is, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">why have we allowed ourselves
to have to submit body fluids to anyone, for any reason?</i> The,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> we have to, so you should too</i>, thought
process, boggles my mind. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">As for Colin, I’m glad it’s catching on. Of course, you’ll
disagree. You will fight, slander, and even want to impose economic sanctions
on him, while I feel pride. I know you can’t grasp, again, what Colin has done
to bring awareness to an American condition. As you spew, “He’s disrespecting
our flag,” “He’s disrespecting Americans,” “He should be fined,” and, “He
should be fired,” (of course, we can’t forget all of the irrationally ignorant
insults you publicly throw,) the movement grows. Are you really that unaware? I
find myself thinking, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and you vote?</i> That’s
a serious concern. You guys vote, without having a clue of the power of your
vote, or what you are voting for. I know, and I hear this all the time, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">our vote doesn’t count</i>. Well, with that
mentality, it never will. To bash Colin, without a doubt, is a hypocrisy. Sadly,
as you clutch to your judgment, you’re blind to the exact thing you say you’re
about.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Now let’s traipse into the well beaten issue of the Syrian
refugees. Again, I wonder how it feels to talk out of both sides of your
mouths. First of all, what do you know about the Syrian refugee issue? Do you
have any clue why there are so many Syrian refugees? I know, it’s common
knowledge that we are bombing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ISIS</i> in
Syria, right? Are you sure that is the only reason? Well, mainstream media and Facebook
meme’s say it, so it’s all you need to know, right? I guess you don’t know why
Putin is defending Syria’s Assad. Could it be that we sent chemical cylinders to
the un-American <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soldiers</i>, without instruction
on how to use them? Those chemical cylinders went off accidently. Of course, we
didn’t take responsibility. We turned it around to benefit us. We blamed Assad.
We said he launched those chemical weapons on his own people. He didn’t. We
did. We tried to use accidental chemical detonation as a catalyst to bully our
way to overthrow a government, but Putin, rightfully, stepped in. Oh, I know,
now you will call me a communist, or a Russian sympathizer, because you don’t
even realize that Russia isn’t communist anymore, but, then again, that’s only
if you know who Putin is.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">NRA, come on. You guys are the best, or worst, for seeing
only one issue, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they are trying to take
our guns</i>. Little do you know; you guys are the worst for voting for the
regimes that are setting the stage for your guns to be taken. While you support
total gun freedom, you refuse to acknowledge that being loyal, to only the 2<sup>nd</sup>
Amendment, your vote destroys the meaning of the Constitution. Your vote
supports Blue Lives Matter. You support the abuse of police power, helping to
change us into a police state that allows officers to shoot and kill. American
value? Nope, that isn’t acceptable to any real American.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Every one of you claim to be pro Constitution, Patriots. Your
stance, on every issue above, conflicts with the very crux of what it means to
be an American. You cast stones, scream, belittle, and humiliate that flag, you
know, the one you claim you pledge your allegiance to (but only in public.) You
call your politicians names, like Killery or Obummer, showing simple disrespect
to your country. You shame me. You desecrate the value of my Americanism. You
are free to say whatever you like, it’s a 1<sup>st</sup> Amendment right, but,
you also bare your ignorance in doing so. You are the sheep that continue to
lead our Constitution to slaughter. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s
with illiteracy, you cast your vote. You are American decay. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You turn a blind eye to facts, while your ears
are busy gobbling up mainstream gossip, then your mouth vomits ridiculous
soundbites into social media. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I am an America
that values our rights. I value equality, due process, search and seizure,
peaceful protesting, and religious freedom. Those are my rights as an American.
Those rights were penned in for a reason. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is my fellow Americans, my people, that fought,
died, and were maimed to protect those fundaments rights. How dare you
disrespect values that others died to secure? <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>No, I will not leave my country, because half-wits
lack facts and run on prejudiced emotion. I am smarter than you. I will fight,
with all my might, to keep my country free. I am a Patriot. I am an American. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I respect the fallen. I will defend my country,
and my people, while you sit there, chomping at the bit in your pseudo patriotism,
fighting against every American value we’ve treasured. I believe in America. I
believe in the fundamental basics of Lady Liberty. No, I won’t leave, I’m a
freedom fighter, and I won’t make it easy for you to destroy it. Throw all the
insults you like, because I throwback fact. Maybe, just maybe, one of you will
American up, instead of living drunked up on idiocrasy. Ignorance isn’t bliss
when there is so much at stake. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Let freedom ring.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Peace,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Pam</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">SHELLY MILTON</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">THE SILENT HOPE OF THE WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">I’ve tossed and turned debating on how I wanted to write
this article. I want my readers to know I don’t support people easily. There is
a personal standard I have to meet with myself, before I can support any
candidate for any office. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Today, a voting day, I am speaking out for the Wayne
County Sheriff’s that feel they are being held as operative hostages by their quasi
leader: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Benny
Napoleon</span></b><span style="color: red;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Call after call, disgruntled officers told their story.
The stories infuriated me. Each call sang the same song, to the same tune. Time
after time I listened to Kwame like, top heavy, over paid, out sourced,
leadership. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Struggling officers, without a raise in fifteen years,
were robbed in a recent contract that offered a five percent rise in pay. The
offer robbed our county officers of their Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance,
throwing the officers into high deductible and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">appointed</i> insurance. Retirement also took a hit, going from a 5/1
to a ten percent match. With only a week to review, the union pushed for
approval. The officers were threatened if they didn’t sign the contract in a
timely fashion, the offer would be redacted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">At the same time, the appointees were granted a ten
percent raise on their $120,000.00+ annual salary, kept their gold standard of
insurance, and their pensions remain intact. Fair? Absolutely not. Benny is
running Kwame’s Detroit under the guise of county sheriff. Benny gifted jobs,
appointing his double dipping, Detroit Police buddies. These retired Detroit
Police appointees will be collecting double retirements (on the taxpayers dime),
while the county officers scramble to survive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Under both, Benny and Warren Evans, the county has
replaced and outsourced working Wayne County police jobs to their L.L.C holding
friends. The Wayne County Drug Enforcement Agency and the tether program are
excellent examples of the privilege. Benny thinks its fine to appoint, double
dip, and outsource, lining his pockets, and the pockets of his cronies. With
eyes closed to anything but a Floridian golf ball, Benny is blind to the
implosion within his own force. Promoting from within DPD is piss in the face
of his own county workers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Repeatedly, the names of these appointees keep
reappearing. Deputy Chief Spivey, the reported appointee that crashed three
county vehicles while drunk driving (without charges) is known as the Solitaire
Chief. Report after report came in that the guy does nothing but sit at his
desk playing online Solitaire. At a salary of over a hundred grand a year, the
tax payers deserve more for their buck than a drunk who breaks the law, with
police protection. Career Solitaire while sitting on your ass shouldn’t be
considered a prerequisite for county appointees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Then we come to the notorious Robert Dunlap. Bobby is
twenty-two year retiree from the Detroit Police Department, and, you guessed
it, a Benny appointee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost as if
Benny planned it himself, Bob retired and was instantly hired as an appointee,
giving him the authority to double dip the system with dual retirements in
place. His title: Project Consultant for Wayne County, according to his
LinkedIn account. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">The demeanor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Bob</i> seems predatory and predictable. He can always be counted on to be the
belligerent one in the crowd. He acts the sexist, the manipulator, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do it my way, because I said so</i>, without
rule or order, King. Humiliation may be key in the DPD world, but there is no
room for bullying on the WCS playground. At his first training class he put the
officers on notice by saying: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You are not
the real police. DPD is the real police.</i> The dignity of the County police
was shrouded by the narcissistic derailment of spirit. One thing obvious, DPD
was appointed to be in control of our counties finest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Officer after officer complained. Same story, same names,
recurrent. Nobody would speak out on the record. The inside was afraid to speak
out. With job security at stake, the officers were afraid of repercussions of
Benny’s appointed hierarchy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">The secrecy of the officers that spoke to me sent alarms
panging my furor. Fear of exposure, for the officers, is real. All voices led
to one woman, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">must</i> talk to, by the
informers. She wasn’t afraid. She is tired of the mistreatment of her fellow
officers. She is tired of buckling down to the indignant powers that be. She is
speaking out; she is determined to destroy the stronghold on the balls of her
fellow officers. She is little, she is brilliant, and she is determined. </span></div>
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<a href="http://shellyforsheriff.com/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana";">Shelly Milton</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";">, tired of the shams
of the current administration, is running against Benny Napoleon for Wayne
County Sheriff. She has paid the price for her candidacy. She deals with people
trying to silence her crusade against the over-spending, high appointee, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no show</i> Sheriff, Benny, daily. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Shelly worked her way to a 20 year corporal from a mere
secretary. Her colleagues use words like honest, dedicated, persistent, and
knowledgeable of the entire department, when discussing Shelly’s ability. It
has often been said that what she doesn’t know, she will learn from experts,
not the DPD. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Talking to Shelly, I took an instant liking to her. Her
passion was undeniable. She is fed up with tax payers paying double
retirements. She is fed up with the inability of the current administration to
promote from within. She is tired of watching her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">brothers and sisters </i>suffer and lay stagnant to an ill managed
system. Her thirst for righteousness is strong against a system that resembles
cronyism. She is hell bent on fixing what the Napoleon administration has
implemented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Shelly is married to a DP officer. With four bi-racial
children, her struggle is fact based when asked what her stance is on Black
Lives Matter. She </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Qhpo9WosDwXdSVzO2eoibqAanPl0Z3MLJm0TCshWIs/edit?usp=drive_web"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana";">wrote
a letter</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> to address the concerns. Though, in her heart, with mixed
children, she is better aware than most of the current racial situation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Besides fiscal responsibility, Shelly is in this race to bring
honor and respect to the office and the department she once loved and dedicated
her life to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Voting for Benny is a vote for mismanaged funds,
appointees, and all included vacations with lots and lots of golf in the Golden
State, but a vote for Shelly Milton is a vote towards truth, justice, and
honor, something Wayne County has lacked for a very long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">My vote is with you, Shelly, and I hope many follow my
lead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Till the next time,</span></div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-42454420107005441032015-08-28T17:42:00.001-04:002015-08-28T19:21:11.108-04:00Take A Stand, America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 13.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 13.2pt;">
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's no secret that Donald Trump is pumping up the masses. American bigotry is effervescing through the fabric of his elite, Mexican made, fashion line. He appeals to a base I would like to silence, though I respect the Constitution too much to attempt to silence any sect or belief system. He demagogues as a financial wizard with wings of a sectarian politician. The Donald singles out those he deems less important. In the same blowhard tone, narcissistic Trump idolizes those entertained and embellished by his scathing and pompous demeanor. Though, my personal belief is his attitude, on a global scale, will get us nuked, I think The Donald is playing a role in the transformation of Americanism. </span></div>
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The flip side of Trump's antics and spewed propaganda: Bernie Sanders. Bernie, a man that has </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fought for equality and civil rights his entire life, stands true and votes by standards of the American </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Constitution. With honor, he doesn't want to change our protected freedoms. He honors the words, </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">scribed and signed by our forefathers, to guarantee the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">happiness. Americans, albeit white, black, brown, yellow, gay, straight, trans, short, tall, fat, thin, </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">racist, secular, religious, atheist, ugly, pretty, smart, not so smart, disabled, young, old, rich, </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">poor, working, unemployed, anchor babies, and bigots, have earned and deserve the rights of the </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">land. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Besides a shared and inconsequential hair issue, these two men have the chance to change it all. Though them, we may find our way out of the party choke hold. Both men, on opposite sides of the fence, have the power to abort party affiliation. The Donald is drawing crowds in record numbers with his billion dollar ability to achieve national media coverage. Bernie is drawing record crowds without bank. The Trump field, filled with bigotry and hatred, is pushing ideals that feed division, whilst the Bernie camp presses on for unity and equality on all levels. Bernie calls out the Koch initiative. Bernie stands to rise above corporate greed and ownership of the Senate and Congress. He </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is waging war on behalf of a failing middle class that seems too ignorant and too uninvolved to save </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">themselves. Trump, well, he is intelligent enough to take advantage of the dumbed down American </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">twist. </span><br />
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 13.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 13.2pt;">
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Campaigning under different dogmas, the power to change the 'nuts in a pipe wrench' two party </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">strangulation system, can end with these two </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">candidates.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the left, The Democratic Party is refusing to acknowledge Bernie's existence, claiming </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hillary has no clear and present threat.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the right, they are opting for loyalty oaths. Trying to limit and control which choices the people </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">will be allowed if Trump is not the choice of The Republican National Party. This party wants to tie </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hands and force support of their choice in this pseudo free country of ours. They are always about one </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">form of voter suppression or another. Trump scares them to death, but their party lacks any credible </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">contenders. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The fear of independent runs, by either candidate, is already filling newsstands. Anchors are whispering gloom and doom from commercial broadcasting desks. The fear is Trump will 'give' the presidency to Hillary if he runs without RNC support. The Dems, they're in hush mode on the epic Bernie frenzy. I believe they think if they ignore him long enough he will go away. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have a brilliant idea. Let The Donald run as Donald Trump, without a party affiliation. He's come too far to let down his supporters, nominee or not. Let Bernie Sanders run without a party, as well, staying true to his supporters. Let the RNC run their ALEC and Koch candidate, and let the Dems put up their Wall Street candidate. Let's let the people have their say, let the people declare the next President of the United States, not electoral votes, not Supreme Court judges, but the people, one by one, vote by vote. Only then can we retrieve our balls from the scrotum of the two party system. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 14.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let's send a message and let them know: We the people is the #1 basic American principle, we aren't joking, we aren't playing, and your two party ideology is over. Let the people speak, quit silencing the masses, and let freedom, for once in many, many years, ring.</span></div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-29878645277010504322015-01-28T17:43:00.001-05:002015-01-28T17:43:23.312-05:00School Kids Forced to Drop Their Pants, Lift Their Dresses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was either 1993 or 1994 at Lathers Elementary School
in Garden City, Michigan, that my daughter, Nicole, came home with a paragraph
of apology she had to write, fifty times, in regards to disrespecting the
substitute teacher, Ms. Ousterhout. Since Nicole had never been in trouble a
day in her life, I questioned her about the circumstance that led to the
punishment. She told me stories about the other kids, and the statement: “The
only job you will ever be able to get will be flipping burgers,” which Ms.
Ousterhout made to another student for not standing correctly in line. I was
livid. I told Nicole she wasn’t allowed to write the paragraph, because she
wasn’t going to apologize for something she didn’t do. She was upset. She was
afraid she would get in trouble. I called the school, talked to the principle
who switched me to Ms. Ousterhout. I asked her what role Nicole played in the
trouble she had with the class. She admitted Nicole was not responsible for any
of the trouble, but the whole class was ordered to write the paragraph. I
refused to allow it. I told her as a parent, I trump her. I also raised the
issue of telling any kid they were so dumb they would grow up flipping burgers.
Ms. Ousterhout began to cry. She didn’t need to be in a classroom setting. The
next day Ms. Ousterhout was on every television news broadcast for hitting a
second grader. Today, I read about an elementary school in Texas that forced
about twenty-four kids to pull <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/28/students-drop-pants/22463461/"><span style="color: blue;">down
their pants</span></a> and show their underwear. They were searching for the perpetrator
who was defecating on the gym floor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While researching this incident I ran across another
case of tenured protected molestation. In San Diego, assistant principle, <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/06/18/thong-demotion.htm"><span style="color: blue;">Rita
Wilson, lifted girls’ skirts</span></a> and dresses as they entered a school dance to
see if they were wearing thongs. This was not done in private; this was done at
the entrance of the dance, in front of boys and male and female adults. Not
that doing it in private would make it any better, it would just bear less
humiliation for the student. If the girls were wearing thongs, they were sent
home to change before they would be admitted into the dance.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rita’s punishment was demotion. She lost her position
and is now a teacher of the same students of which she played peek a boo. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I thought about Ms. Ousterhout, egotistically ordering
all to apologize for the act of one. I thought about how angry I was that my
daughter was expected to admit responsibility for something she didn’t do and
pay the price for it. Writing paragraphs is one thing, dropping your pants,
lifting your skirts, that’s another. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If a preschool acted in the same manner they would be
fully investigated and closed down. If a neighbor asked the kid next door to
show either a thong or his underwear he would be arrested for molestation and
put on the sexual predators list. Should high school or elementary school
teachers be treated any differently? Should the penance be less than any other
person who chooses to molest a child or should the consequence be higher,
because children are taught to obey educational officials? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am appalled that Rita was only demoted. I am
disgusted that she still has a teaching position in a public school. Though, it’s
unclear what will happen with the Texas school officials, I’m sure it will be
another slap on the wrist and the remains will be swept under the entrance ramp
rug of the public educational facility. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Next, it will be said that the teachers had a right to
force the Texas children to drop their pants for a poop check. It will be okay
Rita humiliated young women by her thong check. Why? Because their religion
says it’s okay. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The storm is brewing in America. Leave our children
alone. Angry parents are a force that should never be pushed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Till the next time, keep your pants up and your skirts
down kids…JUST SAY NO!!! And your parents will be proud.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-58787878731250538762015-01-10T03:22:00.000-05:002015-01-10T03:22:39.033-05:00The Castration of American Freedom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If our forefathers were to see what is happening in
America they would shake their head and shed tears for the death of the nation
they tried to protect. If they could feel what has become of American freedom they
would cringe of shame and nauseate at the betrayal of the words they penned to
protect the people. The uncontrollable slander and damnation would flow,
deeming us too ignorant, lazy, complacent, and unworthy, to consider us truly
American. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American’s have been legitimately
raped of their given rights by their captors, their courts, their legislators,
their lawmakers, but the ignorantly arrogant still believe in the entitlement
of freedoms that never did exist. Laws enacted to promote religious
condemnation clearly defy American freedom. Hence, another example of the wicked
deflowering of our basic rights: Michigan House Bill 5958, also known as the
Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lawmakers have
taken the crux of Americanism and twisted the values to fit a select few. The
Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act is a perfect example of the twist on
law and religion. Defiant to the founders, <span style="color: blue;">HB
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5958</span></span> gives very limited power to the government in religious
discrimination. The first paragraph states:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>“The bill would create the
"Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act" to prohibit government
from substantially burdening a person's exercise of religion, even if the
burden resulted from a rule of general applicability. ("Exercise of
religion" would mean "the practice or observance of religion,
including an act or refusal to act,
that is substantially motivated by a sincerely held religious belief, whether
or not compelled by or central to a system or religious belief".)”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Who is the God all Americans worship? What religion is
the National religion? Since being American grants us the freedom to choose,
should everyone be held accountable by the biblical laws of a select religion
or the secular belief of one? Should those who don’t worship in the same manner
or believe in the same book receive any form of persecution? Does allowing any
discrimination via religion create the dogmatic derogation of another? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
founders framed religious freedom on ones right to choose which dogma, if any, they
decided to follow. It did not give credence to use that dogma to discriminate
against those who made different choices. The non pork eaters had no right to
treat someone differently on the basis of the consummation of pork. One who
worships Christ has no right to condemn one who doesn’t. Those that abstain
from tea and coffee have no right to put any tea or coffee drinker in a place
of penance due to their choice of drink. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">T</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">he United
States Constitution protects the right of religious choice under the premise
that we are responsible for our own beliefs and our choice bears no permission
to persecute those who choose otherwise. Freedom of Religion was based on the
observation of those who fled from The Church of England, because of the death
and violence they suffered due to their religious beliefs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They fled imprisonment and tortuous decapitation
if they believed differently than the Church of England under King James. The
only bible allowed was the King James Version, after his personal translation. The
founders lived at a time in the New World when they watched the same religious
war begin between the Catholics and those that fled the Church of England
Christians. They watched the Christians, after teaching the practice of
scalping to the American Indians; pay the Indians per Catholic scalp. Insidious
behaviors were noted and abhorred in the free world. The founders etched a higher
quality of privilege and humanity for their new land. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Being American
is being free enough to believe and praise religion, but it is also to keep
your neighbor free from being chastised and condemned for not believing in the
same manner. No laws should be enacted to force any American under the guise of
“freedom” to discriminate against anyone for any reason. It should never, ever
be allowed in the name of Jesus. What a slap in the face to the man who taught
anti hate, love, acceptance, and died for your sins.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">HB 5958
gives the religious believers too much power to enact, with very little rebuttal
from the government, discrimination. The Christians are chomping at the bit
over the possibility of passing House Bill 5958. There is absolutely no purpose
for this law in a free country, a country with many diverse people, all colors,
religions, races, sexual orientations, and genders. When did it become possible,
much less legal, in America for a Christian to have the right to refuse anyone
anything based on any reason aside from violence? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">America is
a diverse country filled with immigrants from all over the world. Immigrants
bring along their religious beliefs. We are not a Christian nation. We are
Mormons, Catholics, Christians, Muslims, Jewish, Hindus, Buddhists, Scientologists,
and Atheists. There is not one simple “good book” there are many scrolls of
sacred beliefs. What will happen when HB 5958 backfires and the Christians find
themselves in the hands of the non Jesus believing religions? Can those
religions then damn them as heretics and crucify them based on their holy book in
the name of their God? Will the religious right then fight for a religious war
on our soil because they can’t accept what they themselves have imposed on
others?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
question we should be asking ourselves is why this is allowed to continue to
happen in America. Why have Americans voted for politicians that would have
such little respect for the real meaning of the constitution of the land they
swore to protect. It’s treasonous to change the meaning of the laws to fit an
agenda, and you can bet your last dollar there is an agenda. Americans have
fallen prey to their rapists. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Christians
back these laws in the name of Jesus, but in reality the laws aren’t about God,
religion, Christ, Buddha, or any other sect, it is purely greed, power, and
money. There is not a National religion in America; we are still free to choose
where, if at all, we worship. God is not worshipped by all Americans, nor
should those who don’t worship God, or any other entity, be punished by the
beliefs of another. When the door to religious persecution is opened in America
we have failed the crux of our freedom; the simple freedom to choose. With
accepting any discrimination, in the name of God, or in any other premise, we
have allowed the ultimate abortion, not of one, but of a nation of millions,
allowing feticide of American rights and freedoms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve been sexually
raped. I’ve been physically forced to do things I didn’t want to do. I’ve been
beaten. But, I can’t ever remember crying uncle and just giving up or giving
in, because it was easier. If I would have done that I would still be there. I
was just fighting for myself. Now I feel I’m fighting for my children, my
grandchildren, and many American generations to come. Unlike half of America, I
will never embrace my rapist; I will never kiss the ass of the politicians that
are bribed to make the laws that rape my people of their freedom. I will never
side with politicians that manipulate people through their God or their
religious dogma and I will continue to fight them until I can’t fight any more.
Too much blood has been shed to keep our freedom, I’m not going quietly. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Hell, give him somebody to look down on and he'll empty his pockets </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> for you." (Said in 1960.)</span></div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-89230431206369985212014-05-30T12:44:00.001-04:002014-05-30T18:55:47.284-04:00Eric's Choice<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Most know that my twenty-two year old son, Eric, is dying from hospital error due to his brain aneurysm. I feel a million different emotions raging inside of me. I’m going to attempt to share my inner most feelings with you, not for your sympathy, I don’t want that, but for those who have been or may be where I am, I want you to know I understand. For those that will never be in this position I want you to understand that this is not an easy road, nor does it grant easy choices. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ve learned a lot about myself and others through this process. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Yesterday, my forty-eight hours were up. I was supposed to make the decision to end Eric’s life after that time period. I’ve thought long and hard about making this decision. I have thought about it since May 7<sup>th</sup> when it first happened. I never let go of the fear of having to make that decision. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I told myself that I would donate every organ I could, because he was young and healthy and he could provide life to others, he could provide sight to the blind, and I liked knowing someone else could live and thrive because of Eric. I told myself that somehow it gave Eric’s life, and death, meaning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I was promised by the leading neurologist that Eric wouldn’t live until May 22<sup>nd</sup>. I was told that his brain was going to explode through the stitches and it would bust out of the area that is missing skull. His intracranial pressures were through the roof and they couldn’t bring them down. With this thought in mind, I made myself believe that organ donation was a perfect route. He would die from brain death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Eric did live and never broke through the stitches in his head, though his cranial pressure is still very high and he is somewhat disfigured from the swelling, he is still breathing above the vent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I felt the pressure from the hospital growing. They wanted me to do comfort care. “Let him go with a dignified death.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Those words rang over and over in my head. There was nothing dignified in what the hospital did to him and they are solely responsible for Eric’s current condition. They don’t even try to deny or hide that fact. Now, I should give him comfort care. I am expected to pull a ventilator on my child that is still breathing; as he breathes they administer more and more morphine until he goes into cardiac arrest. We lose his heart for donation because of the cardiac arrest that they cause, but they can still harvest the rest of his organs. “It’s the humane thing to do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ve heard all the comments that make me sound like a loving and selfless hero. Those kind words began to feel abrasive. It wasn’t and isn’t true. I am not a hero because I am willing to donate organs. I am not selfless because I’m willing to “part out” my son. Actually, the raw and bitter truth is probably the most selfish thing I’ve ever done in my life. I am not donating because I’m so good hearted I am sacrificing Eric’s organs to give life to the less fortunate. My truth is I am donating those organs, if I can, because I DON’T WANT ERIC TO DIE and if I can keep him, or pieces of him, alive in another host then he isn’t gone, he isn’t dead. So please, I’m no saint. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Yesterday I came to terms, being faced with ending his life. I thought out “dignified” death. This is what I believe:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Every life form, at the time of distinction does everything possible to maintain survival. Eric wouldn’t be any different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In my mind, though I know he never wanted to live as a vegetable, he is locked in his failing body. He has had no choices. Fate made choices, doctor’s made choices, I made choices, but Eric’s voice is unable to be heard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">My choices remain: 1) Pull the ventilator and let him go into cardiac arrest eventually, after they drug him so he doesn’t feel the pain and torture of suffocation. With that, we lose the heart for donation, but all of his other organs can be donated. 2) We wait for the next stroke that will take out the brain stem so he will go brain dead and then we can “harvest” his heart along with his other organs. 3) Because his body is deteriorating, let him go into his own cardiac arrest and we lose all the organs and he is gone, no donations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Because I have dealt with many, many hurtful and close deaths I have whispered “I love you, let go, be free” into many ears. I said those words with great love and acceptance of my personal loss, but it was never my son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I have spent Eric’s twenty-two years, kissing booboos, scaring away monsters, and making things better. I can’t say the words “let go it’s okay to leave.” I can’t give my son the permission he may be waiting for because I see the scared little boy, the one waiting on me to make it better, to fix it, to fix him, and I know he will be so afraid if he knows I’m giving up on him. I wouldn’t. He knows that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can tell him I love him, but I can’t and won’t end his life with his last though of his mom being the one that ended his life. I believe he would be screaming, “No, mom, what are you doing, I said three months, please mom, don’t do this, why are you doing this to me.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">My opposition argues with me, they want the organ donation; they want a dignified death for Eric. They believe he would be screaming to put him out of his misery, but life, in its rawest forms fights to preserve itself and Eric wouldn’t be any different. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I have given the word “dignity” a lot of thought. Dignified death? Is death, brought on by man dignified? Is death, by the hand of family or medical personal dignified? What is dignified death? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Death is death. Just because we have the technology to end a life, do we have the right to do so? Do we have the right to put someone into eternal sleep because the costs have gotten too high or the family can’t handle any more traumas? Is that what we as a people have told ourselves; it’s humane, let them go with dignity because ending someone’s life is more convenient and cheaper than the alternative? I don’t think that is dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">So, no matter how selfish I am in wanting Eric to live on, no matter how much he is costing me, my family, or the hospitals, I am granting Eric his own say. I am backing off. Eric is in control of his own death. I do not have the right to take his life, nor does anyone else. I do not have the right to farm out his organs. This one is Eric’s call. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I believe, no matter how bad I would wish for Eric to live on in others, that Eric will die as Eric chooses and through that death he is living out his fate. The death his fate chooses will tell me if I can donate organs. If he goes brain dead Eric is telling us to take what we need to save others. If he goes via cardiac arrest and we lose the ability to donate any organs, so be it, it is his way of saying: “I’m out and I’m taking me with me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I am backing off and allowing Eric to complete his life, his way, and to me that is dignity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Thanks for listening,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-86911357219833241132014-05-27T12:31:00.003-04:002014-05-27T12:31:35.675-04:00Eric Update
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As many of you know, my son, Eric Cook, had a brain aneurysm on May
7. After the aneurysm, Eric showed great signs of improvement. He could move
every limb, he cried as he squeezed his sister and a friend’s hand, in unison.
He danced on command. We knew he was in there. We knew he was alive. He was so
alive, the nurse showed tears and told us that he was moving on command so well
she was having fun with it even when we weren’t in the room. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The aneurysm was coiled and he was in very critical condition with
all odds against him, but daily I was told every day is progress. Every day he
was alive was significant. He had a wonderful doctor from Detroit Medical
Center, who I could trust. The Oakwood doctors, well, they are Oakwood doctors,
and if you know Oakwood Hospital, enough said. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">It was banged into our heads that Eric’s age was his number one issue
against him, his brain didn’t have the room to swell, but if we could keep him
alive through the critical moments, his age would be his biggest asset. Young
brains can rewire themselves and do miracles with time. Time and time again I
was told that you couldn’t give prognosis to the damage of a young brain. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In the beginning, we were told Eric had a stroke with right side
damage. The stroke was a part of the aneurysm; it was due to the blood on the
brain from the break.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The attitude from Oakwood Neurology was horrendous. They wore their
God Complexes openly as if they earned their right to play the role. The
mistakes seemed to manifest with poor quality health care and pompousness, but
in the end, they continuously passed the buck, unable to take responsibility
for their own actions, or inactions. The only person I could count on was our genius,
the doctor that saved Eric’s life, but I can’t expose her at this time. She
wasn’t an Oakwood staff doctor. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I watched as Eric in Neurology told our ICU nurse not to take intracranial
pressure readings because he thought the transducer was plugged with clogged
blood and didn’t want to change the tubing. He told her, at about 8 p.m. not to
chart the pressures because Eric was going for angioplasty for vasospasm at
5a.m and “they could deal with it.” That one action gave birth to a stroke,
still affecting only the right side, but it was a serious error typical of
Oakwood.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">It was because of this stroke that our little genius had him pulled
from Oakwood. She tried to get him into DMC, but there weren’t any beds
available. She assured me that Henry Ford was far more capable and she felt
comfortable with it. I agreed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Eric was doing wonderfully. He was opening his eyes. I didn’t see
it, I wasn’t there during the neurologic tests, but the nurses were very happy
about his stability. Still in critical condition, he was termed “very stable.”
I was told that it was very early into Eric’s condition to be opening his eyes,
especially after the latest stroke. I felt confident with the progress and
believed they had a grip on Eric’s condition. He was progressing and that is
the best we had for the situation. I liked very stable with opening his eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Eric was still in vasospasm which is a collapsing of the vessels in
the brain due to excess fluids and the blood that had settled from the bleed.
He had already had one angioplasty, by the genius, and it went very well. At
Henry Ford, his numbers were still “very stable, nowhere near what they were at
Oakwood.” His intracranial pressures were between 8 and 10 which were very
good. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I received a call at about 8 p.m. on May 16, asking permission to perform
this very standard and simple procedure. I was reassured from of the
information in the above paragraph. I felt confident as I was assured how
incredibly stable Eric was and how simple the procedure was. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Time ticked and I felt it was taking too long. My daughter said it
wasn’t much different than the first angioplasty. At 12:06 a.m. on May 17, six
minutes into Eric’s 22<sup>nd</sup> birthday, the phone rang. The man could
bearly speak. He was in tears. He was shaken. His first words were: “It’s bad,
it’s very bad.” My heart dropped, but I had to keep my composure. I was expecting
him to tell me they lost Eric on the table. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“The only thing good thing is he didn’t die on the table.” The man
cried.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“What happened?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“I blew the balloon up in his head. I did this. I am so sorry. He
was doing so good. He was opening his eyes and everything. He was doing so
good, I am so sorry.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Okay, stop, explain to me what happened.” I said, heart pounding
and scared to death. I knew it was very bad news.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“I put in too much pressure and the balloon broke. It caused
another bleed and another stroke, most of the damage that we can tell is still
on the right, a little on the left, and he is still alive. I’m so sorry.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“You know, six minutes ago it became Eric’s 22<sup>nd</sup>
birthday.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
“Oh no, I’m so sorry.” The man was totally distraught.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Okay, did you stop the bleed?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“No, the bleed stopped on its own which is a good thing.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Okay. Stop.” His tears were making it harder for me. “Obviously
you are very shaken and upset, but we can’t look backwards, we have to look
forward. Just find a way to save my son.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I had the gut feeling this was a student, resident, or someone new
to the field. I was angry, but I knew in my heart this kid was totally shaken
up and Eric had no other choice but to live out this guy’s mistake. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Eric remained on full code. The leading doctor said that he had
been doing this for 15 or 16 years and had at least 1500 or 1600 of these
cases. He said that Eric’s case had him perplexed and he was “nowhere near
throwing in the towel.” This was on Sunday, May 18<sup>th</sup>. He told me he
ordered an MRI for Monday morning, because he needed a full staph that wasn’t
there on the weekends, because of Eric’s serious condition.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Eric was now in a coma, both pupils blown, but I was told they can
come back.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On Monday, I received a call from the resident asking permission
for a tube to be changed. I granted that permission. I asked about the MRI. She
told me it was cancelled because his ICP was too high and he wasn’t stable
enough to lay flat for the test. She then assured me that the goal has not
changed. The goal was to keep his body stable. She said: “Though I can’t give
you one bit of optimism, we keep them stable because sometimes in these cases
we see a totally different scenario in three months.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Within the next 60 minutes I received a call from a neurologist. Without
any test ran, no MRI, no CAT, he tells me we need to discuss comfort care.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Out of nowhere.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I told him every what every other doctor said. He told me I talk to
too many doctors. I asked to speak to the department head; he told me the
department head only does sports medicine. I told him I wanted our doctor that
had him transferred to review the records, he told me there were only 7 people
in Michigan that was trained well enough to know what he did and she wasn’t one
of them. I told him no tests had been taken and his response was: “Are you are
happy with your son breathing and hiccupping once in a while?” The guy was
cold, callus, and insensitive, but he was also going against every word from
every doctor. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I told him I am not ready to make that decision without some test
to verify what he was saying to me. He told me he understood I was under
emotional distress and he could take it to court to get guardianship to make
decisions for me.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I was flabbergasted. Without test to back his words I felt the need
for Henry Ford to hurry and euthanize their big mistake. But, anyone that knows
me knows, that isn’t how I roll. I am not going to intimidate or crumble. My
son, my job, period.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I met with him last Wednesday. He told me Eric will be a vegetable.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had two questions in my mind. 1) Is he
brain dead, and 2) can he be an organ donor?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">No, he isn’t brain dead and yes he can be an organ donor.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">He told me that the pressures in Eric’s brain had gone up to 60 and
they were waiting for the right side of his head to explode outward and break
through the stitches. He expected this to happen before days end and then Eric
would be brain dead. He told me there was no way that Eric’s brain would
survive through-out the weekend. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Whenever I spoke he smiled or grinned and nodded in agreement with
a smile. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I said: “Eric was doing really well, he was opening his eyes, his
pressures were great, until you guys blew up the balloon in his head, then it
was like you dumped a cup of water in a computer and you shorted everything
out.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Again, he smiled, nodded, and said, “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I had to stay composed. He had Eric’s life in his hands.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">We made an agreement to keep Eric on full code until Monday…yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I called and spoke to Eric’s nurse yesterday. They didn’t want a
meeting until today. Her words were “ he has one reflex, breathing.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Okay, again, in a coma, breathing above the vent, not brain dead as
promised by the leading man in Michigan? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“You have to start thinking about comfort care.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, I already know by someone that works in trauma at Henry Ford,
that there are children waiting on Eric’s organs. Organ transplant brings in
hundreds of thousands, while Eric only costs them money. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I asked her exactly what it was to do comfort care. I guess this
was her way of talking about euthanizing nicely.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Well, we take him off the vent and we administer morphine to lower
his breathing. The more he tries to breathe, the more morphine we administer until
he goes into cardiac arrest.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“So you overdose him.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Mary, the nurse, became upset at my terminology. I didn’t care. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“No, it’s dying with dignity.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Dignity for whom? Eric was anti-drug, to him overdose till heart
attack isn’t dignity. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">But she assured me they would have the teams set in place to
immediately remove his organs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><strong>T</strong><strong>oday I meet with the doctors at three.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/helpushelperic/fundraiser/nicoleconsiglio"><strong>https://www.crowdrise.com/helpushelperic/fundraiser/nicoleconsiglio</strong></a></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank you,</span></b></div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-19503702467071030642014-05-23T14:47:00.004-04:002014-05-23T16:35:32.862-04:00I Love You, Eric <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Dear Eric,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oh how I know this would embarrass you, but please understand that it’s all I have. I just learned there is no way, no matter what, that you can come back. Your heart is still beating, the same heart I once heard come to life on a fetal monitor before you were born. You are still breathing over the ventilator. Your body doesn’t want to quit and I know you don’t want to leave us because you are afraid and worried for all of us. Eric, this hurts like nothing ever before, I don’t even know how to let you go, but I do know that every twinge of pain, every tear that falls, is mine, and I don’t regret a single minute of being your mom. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Eric, my fear is you are locked in your body, alone and afraid, trying to scream out to us, but deep inside I know you have said: “Kick rocks, I’m outta this Bitch, Peace.” It’s okay. I don’t want you to stay in a lifeless body. My God, I don’t want to lose you, and selfishly a part of me wants to keep you alive at all costs, but that isn’t what you ever wanted. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You’re laughter, your silliness, your loyalty, and your love will live on forever through all of us. I know you know you were loved by every one of us and we know how deeply you loved everyone, be it one of us, or one of your friends. If you liked, you loved, if you loved, they were family, no matter what. You will never be forgotten or left behind, Eric, I promise. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-23759071437204376842014-04-12T12:35:00.000-04:002014-04-12T12:35:02.368-04:00Debate This!
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">Writing politics forces me to find the
facts on any given situation. Not a conservative or a liberal fact, but the
fact, the only fact there is to the situation. Because there is so much bought
propaganda, and politicians that push it, the facts aren’t always easy to find.
Some believe their nightly Fox News, some MSMBC, some CNN, without realizing
most aired media ignore many issues that are staring us in the face in America
today. They talk on sided political selling points like gay rights, the Russian
invasion, womens rights, all to incite the bases. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">Talking with my dear friend Craig
Degregorio about politics, though we stand on totally different sides of the
fence, we agree on one thing, the lack of respect to our politicians. We voted
for them, they won, like them or not. How dare any American post names like
Obozo about the President of the United States? To loyal and patriotic true
American’s, that’s a treasonous act. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">Craig asked: “Don’t you want it to be
back like it was when we were kids?”<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">T</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">hat question really provoked the
thought leading to this writing. Yes, I want it to be back like it seemed to be
back when we were kids, but that wasn’t real America either. I want America to
raise the bar on itself. I want America to live up to its school taught and propagandized
chest thumping. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are far from it. We,
as we stand, and maybe as we always have stood, are not what we claim to be. We
are wolves in sheep’s clothing. The truth is only hidden from our people, globally,
others are clearly aware, making our people look like idiots with heads stuck in
the sands of denial. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">My America is the America that can
lend a hand to a country that may struggle with food or other needs. Not this
massive power that causes problems in other countries to create a situation so we
can pretend to rescue them. We need to see it for what it is; it is whitewashing
clear capitalistic intent. It appears more obvious in today’s world, but it isn’t
any new thing for America. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America I believe in freedom for
all, not just the select few or the religious Christian. Freedom for all didn’t
segregate or imprecate. Freedom wasn’t based on gender, age, creed, national
origin, sex, or race, much less, and who would have ever even dreamed to add
in, sexual orientation. Freedom to all American’s. That was the keyword.
American’s. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America we have matured past the
barbarism of physical war. Killing people would be as illegal, by now, for
governments as it is for people. We are supposed to be civilized and killing
the kids of underserving families just doesn’t make sense. It’s barbaric and something
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">America should be above and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America, nobody can rule with
the bible. The bible and the spirituality that connects people to it is
something done at home or with other worshippers at church. It isn’t for
government. As an American, if I am punished by the laws of the land should I
also be punished by the law of God, even if I don’t believe in that God? If I
do believe in that God, am I now suffering from Double Indemnity? God doesn’t
rule America, the bible doesn’t rule America, the people do. My constitution
protects me from a state religion. My constitution protects me from you
imposing your Christian beliefs and laws upon me. I am free from your Hellfire
and brimstone because, I am an American. I am free to worship, or not, how and
when and whom I choose, solely, because I am an American. Please quit taking
that from me and please quit trying to impose your spiritual beliefs as laws
upon me, I’m an ‘American, I’m allowed to make my own choice.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America, my politicians are
honest men. They have honor and want the best for the people and the country as
a whole. They don’t play upon a class system and don’t cast out those unlike
themselves. They tell the people the truth, even if it may hurt him. He or she
has honor, dignity, and enough self-respect to hold the highest office of our
land, lying would be against their nature, deception, impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America, a politician wouldn’t
be allowed to slander a competing politician; mud-slinging would be beneath
them. They would run upon their own personal honor, not on the tail of the incumbent’s
shortcomings.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">n my America, money in politics
wouldn’t have any power, electoral votes would be voided and only the popular
vote would count, and all people of age would be required to cast a vote. To
limit voter suppression, voting would be done at home, sign in on your personal
computer with your active social security number. Those without a computer
could use local polling places. This would cut down on long lines and weather issues,
identification issues, and all else that is used against a voter. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America, laws like the Patriot
Act I, II, and the National Defense Authorization Act, which are laws that are
all anti-freedom laws imposed on American’s robbing them of their
constitutional rights, would be abolished. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NSA would also be abolished. Maybe if we
stayed out of everybody’s business they wouldn’t feel the need to terrorize us.
We aren’t despised globally without cause.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America, we wouldn’t have
jobless or hungry. We wouldn’t have so many people working for low wages; we
would have a solid and healthy base for our economy. We would create laws that
wouldn’t allow our wealthy to continue the growing gap to larger than a third
world country. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America, I want media to be
honest, not bought and paid for. I want integrity in reporting. I don’t want to
hear people on Fox News spewing garbage like people kill themselves from
smoking pot. That’s ridiculous and insane.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America, I want justice equally
for all. Politicians are people, not corporations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if Corporations are people hold them all
accountable. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America, lobbyists are invisible
and meaningless, because right is right, wrong is wrong, and the politicians
know the difference. Red, White, and Blue are their favorite colors, not the
green of greed.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">In my America, our food is nurtured,
not doctored to poison us. We would be protected, not infected from by our
nutritional needs. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">Does it matter if I’m a liberal, a
conservative, right, left, black, white, gay, straight, if my toenails are
painted, or not, isn’t this what you, as an American want to?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">Now, I wish this is what we could be.
This is the America I was taught in the public school system to believe we
were. We aren’t. Everything about us has fallen into the danger zone, our
education sucks, our freedom sucks, and the values of our politicians suck….let’s
make us a decent America…It begans with educating yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">I want to be a part of a nation of
pride, not shame. I’m tired of being embarrassed of being an American.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">Till the next time,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-24235226855086367692014-04-03T11:00:00.002-04:002014-04-03T11:00:41.573-04:00Koch's are from God? No, They are Diabolical
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s no secret that I detest the Koch brothers. I have
written many times on the maliciousness of the billionaire brothers. On
September 13, 2013, I wrote the way they were trying to change their image.
This was in reference to the ten thousand dollar donation to the Detroit Zoo.
Now, behind the evil smile is a hundred million dollar donation to a children’s
hospital. People are crooning, almost drooling, as they sing the Koch praises.
I want to hurl. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Facebook conservatives are singing Koch praises and if
one dares to question their motives, George Soros is thrown up. The
misunderstanding and mislead and thumping the Koch drum, falling into the hype.
My stomach turns. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This isn’t about money in politics, this is about
buying politics and pretending it is in the best interest of the people.
Keystone pipeline, where the benefactors are the Koch’s and China, is flaunted
into our faces as a good thing for America. A little research would uncover the
truth, but people are lazy and they buy into American Thinker logics. It simply
isn’t a fact. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The slams to The Affordable Care Act come from the Koch
corner. They are the trainers of too many republican politicians. They are the
backbone of the Tea Party, A.L.E.C., American’s for Prosperity, and numerous anti-climate
change reports. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the nation’s
worst polluters and this goes far beyond George Seros and other money in
politics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s never been a secret that both Rick Snyder and
Scott Walker both live in the Koch pockets. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Supreme Court, along with American greed has given
all the billionaires, on both sides, the right to buy our government. The Koch
brothers play the role of Joker in our undignified governmental Batman series. Where
are the heroes? Where is the true “can’t be bought” American leaders? Where is
the common man and his voice, the voice of our labor force, our voice on
anything? It’s been silenced by underhanded bribes and lack of patriotism from
corporate greed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Koch’s are the most horrific of the bunch. Their
dumping, their pollutants, the formaldehyde they pump into the air against emission
laws that they ignore, the Keystone Pipeline without care or concern of the
land or the people in it, the whitewash of global warming, all contributes to
their net income and to our demise. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For the love of God, people, wake the hell up, do your
own research. Maybe then you will see that these billionaires are diabolical,
not Michelle Bachman’s quoted: “sent from God.” She is confused, ignorant, or
on their payroll. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Till the next time,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-92025260644609943052014-03-01T13:06:00.000-05:002014-03-01T13:06:03.656-05:00The Reds Are Coming Debacle
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I knew something was up with the anti-Russian sentiment
in America. Suddenly, Russia was being American media bashed. Articles were
being published concerning Russia’s anti-gay sentiment as we are trying to make
laws against anyone, especially the LGBT community. I knew something was coming.
So, today, we are warning Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, not to involve
himself in the Ukraine. The Internet is full of fears and support for the U.S.,
hyped up war with Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Articles are
screaming against Russia invading the Ukraine. Propaganda. American propaganda,
pushing pens of unknowing authors who grasp a headline and run with it without
the research it takes to alert the people. The writers should investigate
before they etch their name on something. Newsflash guys, the Reds aren’t coming.
Russia is no longer a communist country. They are as free, if not freer than we
are. They do make laws, just like America, but unlike America they make laws to
protect their people and their land. They have stepped up and banned Monsanto.
How dare they speak out against poisoning the people, the land, and the water supply?
Those damn Reds. Run, hide, and fight. We have to go to war. The Reds want to take
over the world. Hurry kiddies; hide under your desk to protect yourselves from
the nukes. Been there, done it. Like with any liar, they project onto someone
else what they are guilty of themselves. Our nation is no different. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Freedom. That is the name of the group that overthrew
the Ukraine government. Civil unrest there is not any different than we have
here. Many far right Americans call for a revolution on a daily basis. All you
have to do is read Facebook to see it. The far right is willing to bear arms
and start a killin based more on religious control. Occupy the liberal’s
movement, is more about nonviolent change and protecting guaranteed freedoms
written in our United States Constitution. It seems one thing we all have in
common, not just in America, is that we are tired of the position our governments
have thrown us into. It’s forced even the 1<sup>st</sup> Amendment, a much
protected value of the American people, to hide behind closed doors as censure
of information. This is ordered by our government via media and Internet. Occupy,
and the masses of people who are tired of government regulations <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of what appears to be New World Orderish, is
the only thing global that has seemed to work so far. Should our government run
in to reverse what the people of the Ukraine just fought and died for? Should
American troops that are supposed to resemble the true meaning of freedom
become involved in a country that just freed the people? Absolutely not. Isn’t
for and by the people what the soldiers fight for? Yeah, I thought so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m so sorry, American government, that it didn’t work
out quite the way you intended it to. I’m so sorry that nominated Prime
Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk felt more comfortable to asking Russia for their
protection in the Ukrainian issue, probably from the United States. Like many
other countries, they don’t want us there. They obviously don’t want the E.U.
there either. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Vladimir Putin didn’t make up weapons of mass
destruction to invade a country. He was asked and he took it to his parliament.
They voted it in fair and square. Deal with it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As Americans in basically the same position, shall we
send our children and grandchildren to fight against the basic American
principles just because our government doesn’t like it? I think its American
principle versus American hypocrisy. Are Americans so selfish that they only
believe American values when it pertains to other American’s? If so, that’s
hypocrisy as well. Our wars are supposedly fought based on those freedoms.
Shall we commence to fighting and killing? Isn’t that against our own
principles?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My huge question to the American government is this:
Iran, Afghanistan, N. Korea, Egypt, Syria, and now the Ukraine have all had
involvement in the political affairs by our long and bullying noses being where
they don’t belong. Why isn’t our own federal government protecting our own
rights as well as they protect others? Why isn’t the country going to war
against state governments that are raping the people of their American basic
protected rights? Why aren’t you warning the tyrannical Governor Rick Snyder
that is hitlerizing Michigan? Why aren’t you going after the American political
demons to protect our own people? You have the authority; you signed it in with
the National Defense Authorization Act. Why aren’t you protecting us? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The reason to me is clear. The bigger picture is also
clear. I get it. America and its vendors are the problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So for all the fear of Russian led war, ask yourself
this: How many countries has Russia involved itself in? How many countries does
Russia have troops protecting? They rarely involve themselves. They are a quiet
nation, and like the fiercest beings on earth, you can only poke a stick so
many times.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">No, the Red’s aren’t coming. They aren’t who we need to
fear. For many, globally, the fear comes with the Red, White, and blue are
coming. They don’t want us, trust us, or even like us. We are bullies, and like
with any bully, people tire of the abuse and they join together to put the
bully in its place. Putin isn’t afraid of America. He is doing what was asked
of him without phony weapons to get his vote approved. That’s too American and
it isn’t how he rolls.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I think Vlad is more like a lady I once knew that said:
“Don’t start no shit, won’t be no shit.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Agreed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">T</span>ill the next time,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pam<o:p></o:p></span><br />
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-59604008904625029282014-02-22T21:09:00.001-05:002014-02-22T21:09:21.326-05:00Michigan Drivers: HELP ME HELP ALL<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Michigan auto insurance has gotten out of hand. I have always shared ownership with my sons when they purchase a car so I can put the insurance in my name making it cheaper and affordable for them. My nineteen year old son recently bought a car. He tried to register it on his own. He is very self-sufficient. He was excited. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wanted to do it on his own. Then the call came. “Mom, can you put the insurance in your name?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, I had done it for the others, it was his turn. I was in awe as to why. “Mom, they want $7,000 a year for no fault insurance. I’ve never even had a ticket.” I knew I could get it much cheaper, at least affordable. After all, my age, my driving record, low cost no fault, right? Boy was I surprised. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I called to get Austin an insurance policy. The first quote I received was $3,200 for six months. The absolute cheapest basic insurance I could find for Austin was through e-surance at almost $1,300 every six months. The next cheapest no fault I could find was at $3,610.00 a year. That was with, and I hate to admit this, an AARP discount (Which, of course, I would have to join before the discount could go into effect.) <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Talking with many difference agents, I learned that Michigan has the highest insurance in the nation. It’s because of the Personal Injury Protection mandate in our required auto insurance. I learned that if you don’t have employer paid medical insurance, your auto insurance is higher. Health coverage, unless its employer paid, doesn’t cover auto injuries. So, by law, we have to carry two separate health insurance policies? It doesn’t make sense. To top of it all, there is the Michigan Catastrophic Claim Association PIP Premium. So below is the list of costs for the most basic no fault on a car that my son paid $800.00 for, a 1998 4-door Saturn under my name:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bodily Injury Liability<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>$20,000/$40,000<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>$324.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Damage Liability<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$10,000<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$9.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Uninsured Motorists<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>$20,000/$40,000<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> $10.00</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Underinsured Motorists<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$20,000/$40,000<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span> included</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">PERSONAL INJURY PROTECTION<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>$3,078.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">PIP Catastrophic <span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$189.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> TOTAL:<span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span>$3,610.00<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Without the Personal Injury Protection and Catastrophic insurance the cost would be a mere $343.00 a year. Payments of $28.59 per month is affordable. The people should be allowed to opt out of this high cost of insurance. Yes, Michigan says if you are hurt in an accident and out of work they will send you a check for the rest of your life, but nobody knows what that monthly payment will be. The catastrophic insurance will pay if you lose limbs. Why can't we take personal responsibility? This should be a choice, plain and simple.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I interviewed many insurance companies. One agent told me a twenty-eight year old woman moved from Michigan to Indiana. Her auto insurance plummeted $900.00 per six months to the reasonable $300.00 it should be. Another agent told me that they quit offering full coverage, because in Metro Detroit many policies exceed $10,000 per year and people just simply can’t afford it. Another agent explained a $200.00 policy, good for 1 week, just to obtain license plates, due to skyrocketing costs. All agents blame the state. They are suffering, too.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I began talking to people about this situation. A Lincoln Park small business owner almost hit the roof when he received his insurance renewal. Out of anger, he blamed his insurer and called another company. The agent came in and told him that everyone should expect a 25% increase in their insurance upon renewal due to…get this…”Obamacare.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I talked to a young mother, 28, who just purchased a vehicle. There was no way she could afford $500.00 down and $500.00 a month for no fault insurance. The last time she registered a vehicle is was $130.00 down a little over a year ago. She had no choice but to opt for the $200.00, one week coverage.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A few said they would rather take the chance without insurance. The ticket cost is about $175.00. In Michigan, there is Drivers Responsibility through the Department of Treasury which demands payments of $200.00 for two consecutive years if you are guilty of driving without insurance. Sorry, but $575 in two years surly beats that same payment in a month. I still don’t understand driving isn’t a right, it’s a privilege. If that is so, how can the state mandate it? How does the Michigan Department of Treasury collect on a paid violation? By having a driver’s license we earn the privilege. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I say it’s time to put the brakes on imposing irrational costs by the State of Michigan. This is totally out of control and out of hand. While everyone else is falling into the smokescreen traps we can’t continue to allow ourselves to be sent to the poor house. Young people cannot bear this expense, especially when their parents carried them on insurance and they have never been insured on their own. This makes it impossible for many to follow the law and be law abiding when there is no way they can afford to drive legally. Have we become a state of people where driving is only a privilege for the elite few? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Uninsured motorists are referred to as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dirty drivers. Filth</i> is a much better word, not towards the drivers, but toward that state that mandates such ridiculous cost without the choice to opt out of their coverage. People are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dirty</i> because they can’t afford the insanity imposed, but people are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">filthy</i>when they impose such hardships on their people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I am furious. I think it’s time that the people in Michigan stand up and take responsibility for what is being done here. I am willing to write the proposal if I know people will sign the petitions. There is only one way to change it and we all know where that begins. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Please contact me and let me know if I have your support in standing up against these absurd costs. I will try my hardest to make the change, but I need to know if I have support.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Till the next time,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-19205291823965053302014-02-13T06:52:00.000-05:002014-02-13T08:16:09.768-05:00Today, I Am Gay<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Today, I am gay. Today, I choose to love Joanie, not
Joey. Today, I desire the touch of another woman. Today, I long to the kiss the
lipstick soft lips of my lover, while smelling my own perfume as I explore her nakedness.
Today, I choose love over make believe, passion over sex, and courage over
acceptance. Today, I will shout in every Cathedral, every Church of Christ,
every Assembly of God, and every dwelling that claims to worship Jesus Christ
that I love a member of the same sex. Today, I respect my predecessors who have
suffered at the shame of family, degradation of society, and the immense condemnation
of Christians who hide their hatred behind my God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">No longer will we, the Homosexual-American, commit
suicide from the depression of non-acceptance, harassment, and hatred. No
longer will we cower, hide in the proverbial closet, or feign heterosexual
relationships to please others or to gain acceptance. No longer will we play don’t
ask don’t tell within a military full of patriots, as I too, am a patriot. And today, I will not hide and I will openly show love to my partner. Today, I am free.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Today, as a Homosexual-American, a lesbian, or to some
of you, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bull dike</i>, I am going to
tell some people exactly what I feel inside my<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> carpet munching</i> heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Representative Lynn Luker (R-Boise) proposed an anti-homosexual
bill. This bill would allow doctors, lawyers, police personal, or any other licensed
professional to deny services to anyone in the LGBT community if our way of
life offends their religion. It bans pulling the license of those who discriminate
against us, via their religious views. Considering many male Christians, and
Christian leaders, (not only Catholic) has had indiscretions with young boys
and girls, (which trumps our non-pedophile homosexuality) you should check
yourselves, not exempt yourselves, in the same vein. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You are hypocrites. You are not followers of the Christ
you claim to worship or you speak with a forked tongue. If God is the Creator,
I was equally created. I am your sister, you are supposed to love me, not pass
judgment on my sexual desires in the privacy of my personal life. As a
homophobic, are you not hiding your real desires of homosexuality? Are you hiding
deeper than in a closet, but in the locked deep cellar of your mind? Don’t you know the same
God you claim to worship knows what’s in your heart? Will you be damned
to eternal Hellfire alongside of me, my brother? Or will you burn deeper and
at a higher temperature? I hate no one. I don’t discriminate or push my
lifestyle onto you. Am I following the true word over your words that spread hate and injustice? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This excerpt is taken from the <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/12/idaho-bill-would-allow-doctors-or-cops-to-refuse-service-to-lgbt-people-on-religious-grounds/" target="_blank">original article</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Cornerstone Family
Council is backing Luker’s proposal, which is now awaiting a full hearing, to
prevent the state from passing laws to block people from “living out their
faith.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“The free expression of
religious freedom is no longer understood for what it was intended,” said Julie
Lynde, executive director of the conservative Christian group associated with
Focus on the Family. “There’s a double standard against people of traditional
religious faiths.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As an American, I fully agree that every American has a
given right to live out their personal faith, but that isn’t faith that
imposes sanctions on others. It’s their personal faith, between themselves and
their God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Julie Lynde needs a history lesson if she believes that
freedom of religion justifies condemnation of others as if Christians hold the septor
to the gates of Heaven. The reason for the freedom of religion clause was based
on everybody’s right to believe as they chose to believe. It was to keep people
from imposing their religions on other sects or believers. It was written because
of all the violence and death caused by the believers that killed anyone who believed
in a different road to the same God. It was created so people would be free
from religious persecution on all levels. It was also written well enough to
allow all readers to know, without a doubt, that America was a nation of diverse
religions and did not and never would, have a national religion. In this regard,
Christianity fails. It was written outside of politics and it was well
documented that religion had no place in government. The founding father's could foresee the insanity in fundmentalist beliefs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Unfortunately, <a href="http://newsradio1310.com/religious-liberty-bill-moves-out-of-idaho-committee/" target="_blank">this bill passed</a> through the State
Affairs Committee with an 11-5 vote and now moves on to the House. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Just for today, I understand how far from American constitutional values we've grown. I have learned, in just a day, what a travesty our nation is. We live in a state of the imaginary illusion of freedom. Just for today, I vow to vote against any republician, or anyone
that represents any republican, that chooses to impose sanctions against the
very crux of America, Freedom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Just for today…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-44970710496320210642014-01-30T16:55:00.002-05:002014-01-30T16:55:47.157-05:00Is Snyder Resurrecting Slavery In Detroit?
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am rarely disappointed by the audacity of Michigan
Governor, Rick Snyder, and today is no different. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rick, during a time of national immigration
issues, appeals to the federal government. His desire is to bring 50,000 highly
skilled immigrants from India and other countries. His goal is to populate the
bankrupt city of Detroit. His plan calls for 5000 the first year, 10,000 for
the next three years, and 15,000 the fifth and final year. He wants their
freedom restricted at the beginning, forcing them, by the conditions of their
visas, to work and live within Detroit city limits. Is Snyder’s goal so
different than the L. Brooks Patterson comment about fencing in the Indians, or
was L. Brooks talking about the Snyder intent? Was it a radical slip, with
intension, or a clear insight as to what was about to happen? The biggest
question in my mind is this; is this so different than herding the African
slaves? Isn’t it the same concept with a different agenda? I find it even more
interesting that none of this was broadcast in local media. I had to search to
find a credible source, which I did find in Reuters. Imagine that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Considering these visas are only supposed to be granted
to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">highly skilled</i> people of other
nations, are they prepared to move to a severely poverty stricken area with
high crime and low education standards? Highly skilled workers will not want to
live and work in an urban area that has been left to decay by the politicians
that, term after term, promise to fix. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Snyder is comparing this adventure to the visas granted
to physicians invited to come to service our high poverty areas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We outsource our medical care for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">under served </i>in the form of American
visas? Amazingly pathetic. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, to further the burden of the American taxpayers,
the highly skilled workers will be granted these visas without the promise of employment.
Where are these high skilled automotive, information technologists, healthcare,
and life sciences educated people, going to work? Considering many won’t be
able to speak our language, and if they can it’s poorly articulated, that doesn’t
make for top notch employment, unless, they are going to be hired by
capitalists that will rape them of their knowledge for a penance of what they
are worth. Again, we’re back to the slaves that should be grateful to be here
and to have a job, but if that fails, we’ll throw them a hundred dollars a
month (after the cuts to the SNAP program that was passed with the new farm
bill) for food and try to starve them back to their homeland. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Once again, I’m ashamed to be an American. We let our
urban areas fall to the ground. Every politician played up the waterfront
property and danced to the corporate swish of green paper being thrown at them.
They ignored the neighborhoods, blamed the people, then not only accepted, but expected
the urbanites to live in poverty. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
Mayor or Governor made drastic moves to clear the abandoned homes or the garbage
ridden lots used for cover to drug deals, rapes, and murders. Once the private
sector was secure, through planned and elaborate bankruptcy schemes, the
property is leased to high bidders who will make personal profit. Now, they
need to ship in the slaves. Will they promise them riches while they lock their
freedom into the city limits of the most dangerous American city in the United
States, without a choice? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As Rick said: "Where else in the U.S. could you
find a house or a lot for the prices you're going to find here? It's a good
deal….” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If it’s such a good deal, Mr. Snyder, why don’t you, Dave,
and Chuck get together and purchase a neighborhood or two. Why don’t you
reconstruct the filth into a desirable area, and then sell it back to the out
of work skilled tradesmen in America at an affordable rate? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Better yet, why don’t you move your family to a
downtown Detroit neighborhood, educate them in the Detroit Public School
system, after all, it should be good enough since you appointed Kevin Orr as an
Emergency Financial Manager, right? Let your children and grandchildren, nieces
and nephews play in the yard and walk the streets like normal children, and
every night tell yourself how lucky you are to be there, even<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>better still, do it on minimum wage, without
health insurance, and on Food Stamps. Put your money and your pseudo
intelligence where your mouth is, and live first as you intend to cast someone
else into living…after all, your words: It’s a good deal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I would vote for a homeless, begging, addicted, street
person before I would ever cast a vote for you, Rick. You are as bankrupt
morally as Detroit is financially.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Till the next time, Pam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-55787418022523500192014-01-26T21:07:00.001-05:002014-01-26T21:07:08.184-05:00AMERICA WAS NOT FOUNDED ON CHRISTIANITY
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Susanne
Atamus, a Chicago congressional runner, opened her mouth and let the
condemnation of God effervesce as if she had the power to point fingers in
judgment. Her words condemned the gay community and those who have had
abortions. Her claim: Tornados, autism, and dementia are punishment from The
Almighty for the gay rights movement and abortions. She continued: "God is
angry. We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil
unions. Same-sex activity is going to increase AIDS. If it's in our military it
will weaken our military. We need to respect God." Discussing this issue
with three different friends, I was shocked by their defense of the Atamus
claims. The three call themselves Independents, but always vote Republican. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried to explain the separation of church
and state was in place to prevent anyone from using the dogma of their personal
religion to persecute another by creating laws secular to suit their personal beliefs.
I heard responses that told me differently, one said she hated Muslims, because
they killed people for being Christian. She also stated that in today’s world, Christians
were the ones being killed and persecuted. All three, at the end of the
conversation, said: “This country was founded on Christianity!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">This is not
true. Let’s do some history. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">America,
unlike the Muslim countries, does not have a national religion. The sister
country to the United States, England, killed, maimed, and slaughtered those
who refused to follow the changing dogmas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In 1604,
King James VI ordered the Geneva bible, which he despised, to be retranslated.
This bible was to follow original text, but to omit anything he thought would
create a revolutionary thought. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
translation mandate was clear and detailed by the King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He demanded this new translation to reinforce
a clear-cut royal political agenda, to be done by elite scholarly committees,
reviewed by a self-serving bureaucracy, with ultimate approval reserved to an
absolutist monarch. </b>Hence, the birth of the King James Version of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God’s words</i> and the record of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jesus Christ </i>was created. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Globally
there were others fleeing their countries in the name of God, for fear of persecution
by their leaders. The French pilgrims fled France in the name of religious freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1564, the French established a Huguenot
(Protestant) colony at Fort Caroline, (near Jacksonville, Florida.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In 1565, Commander
Pedro Menendez de Avile, who had established a base at St. Augustine,
slaughtered the French colony. In a letter to Spanish King Philip II he said he:
“…hanged all those we had found in Fort Caroline because they were scattering
the odious Lutheran doctrine in these Provinces.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon after, a shipwrecked French fleet washed
up on the beaches of Florida and they, too, were slain by de Avile. This time
they were killed by sword. They died next to a river the Spanish called Matanzas
(“slaughters.”) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The Lutheran
French, fleeing religious persecution, were slaughtered because they didn’t
share a specific dogma with the Catholic de Avile. This was the first religious
war on American soil. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In 1620,
the Mayflower landed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were 102 passengers.
Not all were Pilgrims/Separatists, some were Anglicans, some were Puritans, and
some didn’t have any religious affiliation at all. The Separatists were fleeing
religious persecution. They were escaping the Church of England, the national
religion of England. Most Separatists carried their Geneva bible, while other’s
carried their King James Version. Before long, even though seeking religious
freedom in a new land, there was fighting, stealing, and bloodshed. Again, this
violence was due to unshared dogmas of religion. They even viewed the Indians,
who helped them learn survival techniques, as heathens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Because of
the global, religion based, empowerment and persecution, the Enlightenment was
born. The world’s scientists and teachers questioned the dogma of religion.
Through scientific analysis they highly doubted many religious laws. When Galileo
discovered the earth moved around a still sun, his findings were outlawed and
hidden. The bible says differently, it says the earth is stationary and the sun
moves around the earth. Science, though needed to develop, was seen as anti-God.
Soon the group of the intelligent scholars, after seeing religion creating
violence on many levels, created the Enlightenment. These were highly
intelligent individuals that wanted to move past the dogma of religion so, as
in the word of Jesus, people could live together and form a free society in the
new land of America. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">This is
where the founding fathers kick into play. They had lived the immigration in
flee of religious persecution and they watched each group persecute each other
solely based on the differences of religion. It is because of the actions of
the Anglicans, the Separatists, and the Puritans that it soon became obvious
that America could have no national religion. It was imperative to the founding
fathers that America had to be protected from all they have watched evolve in
the name of God. The only way to do this was to grant those the freedom to
choose their personal beliefs, no matter what their choice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Many of the
founding fathers were from the Enlightenment. They believed God created the
earth and its people, then left. They didn’t believe God loomed over our lives
and watched every wrong we did. They believed good works was superior to paying
penance to an unseen God, calling it a fallacy, at times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Below are
Quotes from some of the most famous founders of the Constitution and the Bill
of Rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">John Adams in
a letter to John Taylor: “The priesthood has, in all ancient nations, nearly
monopolized learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And ever since the
Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who
would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish
brutality, is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But touch a solemn truth in collision with a
dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will find you
have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and
fly into your face and eyes."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Thomas
Jefferson:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">"They
[preachers] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight
and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on
which they live."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">"I
have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do
not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming
feature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are all alike founded on
fables and mythology."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">"We
discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible,
of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">"No
man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or
ministry whatsoever."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">George
Washington in a letter to Edward Newenham, 1792:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">"Religious
controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds
than those which spring from any other cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are
caused by the difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most
inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be depreciated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was in hopes that the enlightened and
liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have
reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again
see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of
society." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Benjamin
Franklin: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">". . .
Some books against Deism fell into my hands. . . It happened that they wrought
an effect on my quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments
of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger
than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Thomas Paine:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">"Take
away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the
strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing
of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or
invented absurdities, or of downright lies."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">James
Madison: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">"Experience
witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the
purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During almost fifteen centuries has the legal
establishment of Christianity been on trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What have been its fruits?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More
or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and
servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and
persecution."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Ibid, 1785<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Those were
statements for the founders. Where is the dependence on Christianity of the
nation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The 1796
Treaty with Tripoli states that the United States was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” This treaty
was written under the presidency of George Washington and signed under the
presidency of John Adams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">This was
not a treaty signed to trick the Muslims or lead them falsely. These two
particular founding fathers knew that Christianity didn’t play any role in the
founding of the United States of America. After all, they were founding
fathers. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The Pledge
of Allegiance, which was first published in 1892 in The Youths Companion, didn’t
contain the words “under God.” It wasn’t until Eisenhower, in 1954, that the
words were added, against the will of Francis Bellamy’s, the author’s daughter’s
wishes. Again, the American Government was out of line by changing the words,
and the meaning, of another’s works, to benefit his anti-communist fears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“In God we
trust” didn’t appear until Congress passed it on April 23, 1863, almost 100
years after the signing of the Constitution. It was first suggested by a
minister to the Secretary of State. His stance was he wanted protection from
God during the fears of the civil war. The first time it was printed was on a two
cent coin. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The 84th
Congress passed a joint resolution making the motto “In God We Trust” the national
motto. President Eisenhower signed it into law on July 30, 1956. It was added
to paper money over a period from 1957 to 1966, however, because
constitutionally there is not a national religion this should have never been signed,
by Congress or by President Eisenhower, but the looming fear of Communism was
in full swing and God was manipulated to the people. In a communist world there
is no room for Christianity. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In America,
our founders found it necessary, due to the fierce, violent, and persecuting demeanors
of those that label themselves the followers of God, the Christians, that the
protections were written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Freedom of
Religion was written to protect our country from the affliction of heathenistic
judgment by those who feel they hold the challis. How dare any American, much
less one that is running for a political office, use God and speak on the
punishments God is bestowing upon people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Christians,
with their long history, have verbally and physically slayed, beheaded, hanged,
or condemned those that don’t believe as they do. They pull out their King
James Version, which was censored by King James himself, to cast stones. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A real believer in Christ could not comment or
judge the life of a homosexual, nor could they comment or judge those that have
abortions. Frankly, it isn’t any of your business. Shouldn’t you be focused on
loving your neighbor instead of looking for political stones to throw at people
that don’t concern you? You can’t believe only part of what you say. How can
you worship Jesus, but use Leviticus to propagate hatred towards others? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leviticus is outdated by the blood of Jesus.
If you choose to resurrect the Old Testament, you better start leading your
children to the gates and start throwing the stones until death, because that
was what we were supposed to do with children talked back. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus didn’t speak on any sexual issues. You
can’t live in the forgiveness of the blood of Jesus and shout out to the world “Jesus
is my Lord and Savior” if you are going to desecrate his meaning by going back
to Leviticus to support your hatred and judgment toward what you either don’t
like, or don’t understand. I think when the hands of eternal justice come; it
will swipe away Susanne Atanus and all of those that think they have to right
to pass judgment. That’s Gods place, not ours. Quit persecuting, and if you
feel you have to, do it in front of a mirror, that’s where it will do the most
good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Till the
next time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Pam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-79659151928258820332013-10-04T14:13:00.002-04:002013-10-04T14:13:47.648-04:00The Republican Blame
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Democrats are blaming the Republicans and the
Republicans are blaming the Democrats for the government shutdown. Who is
really to blame? Well, the vote was to approve spending to pay the bills. “The
Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act” is a law, checked and
balanced by the U.S. Supreme Court over a year ago. It is a moot point. The
Republican’s shutting down the government after all the formal checks and balances
have been done is anti-American. It is political hostage taking. All of the
Bills put before the Senate and the House should be “clean Bills.” We all
complain about the pork, yet the far right continues to pork it up. This time,
it’s pulled pork. If we have to lay blame, well, who is adding the pork to the
clean Bill? Who is trying to get something out of a Bill not meant for this
purpose? The last year we gained the “Mansanto Protection Act.” This time they
want to appeal what they call, “Obamacare.” I say it’s time for the far right
to pry the corporate teeth out of their asses, puke out the PAC dollars, and
reopen the government based on real Americanism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I read an article about a CNN interview with Harry Reid. I
was ashamed by the way it was spun to the republican base, making people see
what wasn’t there. No wonder Republican Texas has a Bill to outlaw critical
thinking in schools. They have created many no-brainers that can’t read the
words put in front of them without being told what “it really” says. It’s
pitiful that the American mind is becoming so dependent on what they are told instead
of using common sense. I know they can read, but they can’t comprehend unless
someone tells them what to think. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This article is in reference to an interview by CNN’s Dana
Bash, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Harry Reid (D-NV.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The question Dana Bash asked was: But if you can help one
child who has cancer why wouldn’t you do it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sen. Chuck Schumer: Why put one against the other?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sen. Harry Reid: Why would we want to do that? I have 1,100
people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems
of their own. This is-- to have someone of your intelligence to suggest such a
thing maybe means you’re irresponsible and reckless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Obviously, Reid’s words were meant for Schumer, not Bash.
Reid had also said he didn’t think the government had a right to piecemeal certain
sections of government to remain open leaving other sections closed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The propaganda pushed out of the Republican spin machine said
Reid didn’t care about children with cancer. It hit the Internet with
lightening speed and it was tweeted and retweeted, written on and commented on,
degrading and depicting Reid for someone he isn’t. With just an ounce of
critical thinking, the posting commentators wouldn’t have filled page after
page of “Reid is Evil” and “The libtards don’t care about children.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The reality is far from the truth. Harry Reid is one that
has fought for funding for research and treatment of cancer and other illnesses.
The same Republicans are the ones that vote against it, every time. Heaven
forbid, we don’t need to fund research when there is money to be made by the
insurance companies and drug companies that line political pockets. Who really
doesn’t care? I can go on and on, but I’ll spare my readers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It does make me angry that irresponsible journalists write
gibberish to play to their party. Lies are the very basis of betrayal. What is
even more infuriating than the irresponsible journalists are the weak and led
minds of the readers. I’m stymied at the growth of ignorance in America. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-3333494603130802452013-09-30T14:04:00.001-04:002013-09-30T14:04:29.756-04:00SHUT IT DOWN!
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be it the Retro-Republicans or the Democrats, at this point,
I’m sure both sides are in agreement: Shut it down!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Porking up the debt ceiling bill is not the way to go. I
think most Democrats and Independents respect the no pork clause that President
Obama refers to as, “a clean bill.” I do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The last debt ceiling bill brought us Section 735, The
Farmers Assurance Provision Act, also known as “The Monsanto Protection Act.” This
is the bill that porked provided immunity from federal intervention if crops
were known to cause any issues, even health issues, to the consumer. No pork
this time. It’s the debt ceiling or shutdown. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t understand why the Retro-Republicans want to bilk a
bill that was ruled on in the Retro-Republican Supreme Court. It seems these
laws create a whine fest among almost fifty cent of the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So many people are confused about the implantation and the
protections of The Affordable Care Act. Many believe the billionaire’s push
against it. Of course the high powered insurance companies and billionaires
would be against it. It’s a no brainer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The fact is our medical practices fall forty-fifth, below
Tiawan, and we are the last first world country to jump on the bandwagon to a
national medical plan. Isn’t it time we took care of people instead of the
billionaire’s bank accounts? I think so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The billionaires have pumped millions, if not billions, into
negative ads against “Obamacare.” The pushed propaganda is fed through
commercials and local governments, like the governor of Georgia, who has been a
spokesman for the elitists. How many dollars has his bank account grown?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I hear one more
person say that the plan will euthanize our elderly I’m going to scream. Doctor’s
have been writing those orders before Obamacare even came into view. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A friend called, in tears, begging me to write on the medical
condition of her mother. Her mother had had a mini stroke and seemed to be fine.
The doctors were going to send her to a rehabilitation center. Her heart was
functioning at forty percent. The plans instantly changed and my friend was
told her mother could only to a nursing home. Not knowing any different, my
friend and her brother allowed their mother to be sent to a local nursing
facility. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first day of visitation her mother was in tears. “Why
aren’t they feeding me or giving me my medicine? They won’t even give me a
drink of water.” She asked her daughter, my friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her daughter thought it was her elderly mother’s way of
instilling guilt for allowing her to be put in the facility instead of taking
her home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She ignored her mother’s
cries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The second day, she went through the same thing. Still, she
ignored it. She felt her mother was just afraid. She reassured her and told her
she was just there for rehabilitation and would be released soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The third day, my friend noticed her mother’s tongue was
almost peeling off in chunks. It was then she believed the words her mom had
cried. My friend stormed to the nurse’s desk and demanded to know why her
mother wasn’t being fed, given water, or taking her normal medications. She was
horrified to hear the nurse’s response. “It is doctor’s orders, nothing by
mouth.” My friend asked about feeding her and giving her water. She couldn’t
understand that her mother was being euthanized. She took her mother out of the
nursing facility, with a new added dilemma, Mercer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In my friend’s tirade she begged me to write and expose this
nursing home for allowing her mother to die. She ended her statement with “that
damn Obamacare.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I tried to tell her Obamacare had not even begun, but with
her southern culture, she disagreed. Her mother was ordered to die, by
starvation, by a doctor. She was dead set to blame The Affordable Care Act, the
Act that hadn’t even begun to be implemented, due to the propaganda the
Retro-Republicans have pushed, heavily, in the southern states. My friend lives
in Georgia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Too many people are listening to their famed Fox News.
The people listen to the television commercials that are funded by those who do not
want the Act to take effect. Ask yourselves why the billionaires would be
against it. Then you will understand that it isn’t about all the rumors you’ve
heard, it isn’t about what you have been hand fed from news commentators or
commercial representatives, it is about helping people. How can you argue
against that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Till the next time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-17085981345125957312013-09-21T09:39:00.003-04:002013-09-21T09:39:43.308-04:00Warning: Don't Buy the Smile<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
I recently heard David and Charles Koch donated ten thousand dollars to the Detroit Zoo to create the perfect artic climate for the penquins. Then I watched a television commericial with Dave's smiling face. I don't know what he was promoting, but I assume it's about changing the Koch image. I wondered if there was a political race in the near future. The thought scares me to death. The bro's are super billionaires that buy and train republicans, from Eric Holder to newbies on the block, to vote toward privatizing everything imaginable, from the prison system to the educational system. For years they have been destroying our land through mass pollution, fracking, and genetically modified foods (DuPont). Their plants emit carciniogens into the air and into the water in the form of formaldhyde causing cancer and death to many. They created the tea party, without the baggers even knowing. These brother's have too much control of our laws, land, and lives, without any reguard to any. They are tyrantical deviates born out of greed. Dave and Chuck, not the halarious radio duo, but the power hungry capitolists, are behing many of the smear campaigns and the backward republican thinking that's going on today. After all, that's how they are taught at Koch Kamp.<br />
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When you see the Koch faces, plastered on your television, smiling, pretending to do something good, ask yourself what their intentions are. They want you, the people, the sheep, that are easy to lead, to follow them. It's no different than a trick or treat custome. Beware of anything or any political that has Koch ties. This is not paranoia, it's fact. Detroit is a prime example. <br />
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Open your eyes, don't trust the smile, and research the boys before believing in them, after all, their father made the original Koch wealth through his dealings with Joseph Stalin. How much blood is on the Koch dollars? One wonders.<br />
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Till the next time,<br />
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PamPamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-16580451249412796712013-09-07T14:51:00.000-04:002013-09-07T14:51:31.126-04:00Two Faces of Syrian WMD's<strong>First published as Editor's Pick on Blogcritics.org</strong><br />
<strong>By </strong><a href="http://blogcritics.org/author/Pam-Messingham/" rel="author" title="Posts by Pam Messingham"><strong>Pam Messingham</strong></a><strong> </strong> | <i>Saturday, September 7, 2013</i><br />
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The U.S. should declassify its evidence and prove who is responsible before creating more death.</div>
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I have watched many reports on the chemical attack in Syria. The U.S. says it knows now, without a doubt, that Syrian President Bashir al-Assad is responsible for the attacks on his own people. However, the world, including the U.N. and Russian President Vladimir Putin, wants to see valid proof before any military action is taken. American arrogance proposes that the word of government officials should suffice, with proof hidden behind the “classified” curtain.<br />
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American prosecutors can’t convict a petty thief without presenting the facts against the assailant to the judge and jury. Can Obama, or Congress, take military action against al-Assad without bearing the same burden?<br />
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There is another side of this story that isn’t publicized. The <a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/">rebel forces in Gouta</a>, a suburb of Damascus, say they had possession of chemical weapons, supplied, they said, by Saudi intelligence and released accidentally.<br />
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<a href="http://http//www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/">Abdel-Moneim</a>, the father of a rebel who lived in Ghouta and was fighting to overthrow Assad when he was killed by the chemical release, said his son and 12 others were killed in a storage tunnel used to hide weapons provided by Saudi militant Abu Ayesha, who leads a battalion of rebels. Abdel-Moneim said some weapons had a tube-like structure while others were like a huge gas bottle.<br />
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“My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” <a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/">Abdel-Moneim said</a>.<br />
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According to the same report, a female rebel, “K,” supported Abdel-Moneim’s comments by saying: “they didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them. We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons. When Saudi Prince Bandar gives such weapons to people, he must give them to those who know how to handle and use them.”<br />
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“J,” a well-known rebel leader in Ghouta, agreed, and stated, “Jabhat al-Nusra militants do not cooperate with other rebels, except with fighting on the ground. They do not share secret information. They merely used some ordinary rebels to carry and operate this material.”<br />
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“J” went on to say: “We were very curious about these arms and unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions.”<br />
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The people of Ghouta said the rebels hid in private homes and mosques while the weapons were stored in tunnels.<br />
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Later in the day, after the alleged attack by al-Assad, the militant group <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front" target="_blank">Jabhat al-Nusra</a>, which is linked to al-Qaida, said it would similarly attack civilians in the Assad regime’s heartland of Latakia on the Syrian western edge, in retaliation.<br />
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This is a <a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/">single report</a> ignored by the American government while they point their finger at al-Assad without exposing the sure-fire evidence they claim they have against the Syrian President.<br />
President Obama claims he cannot declassify the classified evidence because it would expose certain intelligence operations.<br />
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Lives are at stake. Committing to holding to 60 days with a 30-day rider, just in case we need more time, to bomb the al-Assad regime, is too much rope to give Obama. There should be no strike against Syria without concrete and open evidence.<br />
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Military action would not raise so many national and international objections if it was an honest act of policing and protecting people against chemical warfare done with total transparency. Putin is not against use of force in Syria, as reported on local media; he is against military action without definite proof that his ally, al-Assad, is responsible.<br />
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If Obama is telling the truth, he needs to expose the evidence to the international community.<br />
If the Saudis are supplying chemical weapons, where does that put America? What can U.S. intelligence tell us about that? It would probably remain classified, but global security should trump national interests.<br />
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Wouldn’t we be surprised to find the terrorists who have helped maintain the Syrian civil unrest responsible for the chemical weapons? Would it surprise us to learn that the Saudis are funding the rebels? Would we believe that if the American-allied Saudis were funding the rebel forces against al-Assad, American hands would be clean? Would we expose our ally or would we hide the information and side with the rebels to overthrow a regime we don’t like? Would we join in to rob al-Assad of his power because that’s what we want, or would we do the right thing: evacuate the innocent, join forces with Russia, and bomb the hell out of the guilty, be it al-Quida, Jabhat al-Nusra, the common rebel freedom fighters who claim to be fed the chemical weapons by the Saudis, or the Saudis themselves, if that’s where the guilt lies? Allies or not, I would be ashamed if America closed its eyes to such horrendous acts by a country we support and call our friends. What statement would that make to the world?<br />
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Until we declassify and show the world our evidence, we have no business playing in the field. Russia will retaliate, at least diplomatically. The 30 to 60-day window for missile launches will come with consequences that we may not be willing to take. The “no boots on the ground” policy can change in the face of the retaliation we will suffer.<br />
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Russia is not going to stand mute while the U.S. violates another international law, nor should it.<br />If you can’t play fair, don’t play at all.<br />
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Till the next time, <br />
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Pam</div>
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-69533218990068593672013-08-22T16:12:00.000-04:002013-08-22T16:12:07.853-04:00Dear President Obama
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am disgusted that my government represents all of our
people. Yes, I disagree with many on a political scale, the conservative right
keeps the inane issues flowing, blinding the people from the reality of what we
have become. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hitler spoke on using fear as a great modifier, didn’t
he? Isn’t that exactly what the World Trade Center was? It worked, didn’t it?
The young fled to enlist and many reached for God. Fear, flight or fight, is a natural
response to an attack. So many still believe it was a terrorist attack, because
they believe our government would never kill our own people. Amazing that in
such a brilliant and free country the people are so easily blinded by banter. I
wonder, did Bush and Cheney high five at each other as families wept? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Suddenly, we were in Iraq, how did that happen? Of
course, our government knew most people wouldn’t know the difference, they were
too consumed by their personal fear or need for retaliation. I did know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The World Trade Center gave the government a huge bite
of our freedoms, of course, all for our own good. The liberals blame only Bush,
calling him out as the fascist he was, but the conservatives call you, Mr.
President, the communist, when you are just as republican and as fascist as
George, aren’t you? You, Mr. Obama, signed the National Defense Authorization
Act. That law raped us of even more freedom than W’s Patriot Act I and II. How
could any American leader sign a law into effect that would allow the degradation
of Due Process, a guaranteed American right? How could you sign a law that
would allow our own military to attack our own people on our own soil? That’s
pretty pathetic for an American, wouldn’t you say? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Those anti constitution laws you sign against us are
penned with the “for your own good” clause. There is no good that can come out
of it except dominate control. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">President Obama, if your agenda is to help the
progression of human existence and to secure our American culture, why is
Russia looking more like America than America does? Why are you trying to
censure us? Why has our media been allowed to be controlled by a corporate base
of maybe six billionaires? Why do you continue to allow Monsanto to poison us
without our knowledge? (And it isn’t only Monsanto, but it’s the Koch’s DuPont,
Bayer, and a few others.) Why do you allow fracking when you know it will chemically
destroy our ground water and our land? Why have cancer causing chemicals been
dumped on big cities to track what effects it will have on the people? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It amazes me that the Patriot Act I, II, and the NDAA,
are all signed into law, robbing us of our freedoms, while our soldiers fight
and die to free other people from oppression. I call bullshit. We are a bully
nation and we will only go where the resources can increase the pocketbooks of
the wealthy Americans. Our government, our politicians, and you, President
Obama, couldn’t care less about our health and well being. You allow us to eat poison
and you make laws to protect those poisoning us. Euthanizing away our existence,
buy the natural selection of the elite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When the politicians, including you, Mr. President, don’t
like the law of the land, they change it, or simply ignore it exists. Look at
Egypt, their coop that we refuse to call a coop. Why do we refuse to
acknowledge that, Mr. President? Of course, anyone with a half a brain can see
our greedy little American hands in that pot. We can’t acknowledge it as a
coop, can we? If we do than we can’t continue to send fighter jets and other
military aide to help those who over threw the Egyptian government. It’s
against the constitution, so ignore that part, forget that we were talking to
the chief military commander in Egypt the day before the coop began, cry
innocence, and make excuses as to why they still need our aid. We are a joke.
We have spun so out of control it’s pathetic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, there is Syria. Do the American citizens know that
both Russia and China warned us about getting involved in Syria? No, most don’t,
but again, I do. We were warned with grave consequence about interfering with
the Syrian civil war. I know, they need us, right? So, do what Bush did with
weapons of mass destruction, create a chemical warfare situation that would
require our involvement. Russia is pissed and knows we are responsible if a chemical
attack really happened, but recent reports say the area was bombed so there may
not be any evidence of chemical attack left. Wow. Really? That act has USA
written all over it, seriously, who do you think you are fooling? This global
economy is going to need a global leader and we think we are going to take it.
The bullies come marching in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Don’t even say we can control this government with our
votes, you war mongers try to control that, too. Look at how Bush won office?
He didn’t. He was appointed. So were you, Mr. President. If Hil’s votes weren’t
cut in Michigan and Florida would you be sitting in that office right now? You
know you wouldn’t. She beat you as Gore beat Bush, but there was no honor in
either of you or you would have backed down with American heroism and said, “I
didn’t win, the people spoke,” Power and Greed prevent any man from having
honor and it didn’t go unnoticed. So, like so many other American rights our
voting system has also became a sham.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me get this right: Our Michigan Governor, Dictator
Snyder, has broken many U.S. Constitutional laws. Why are you concerned about
the Syrian, the Egyptian, the Iraqis, the Lebanese, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Iranians, the Jewish, and the Saudi’s, but
you could care less about the loss of democracy in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>America? Why are our own states, and their
conditions, ignored for the civil issues abroad? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So let’s be clear, even though the majority of war
supporters claim they are Christian, they are the ones leading us to Armageddon.
It all begins in the Middle East, remember? Our government strips us of our
rights as American citizens. Our own government allows corporations to poison
us without our knowledge when over thirty countries in the world have outlawed
GMO foods. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President, has continually warned you, our
American President, to follow suit and to ban Monsanto and other GMO companies
due to the land and food pollution that is destroying the world globally, and
President Obama, you ignore him. Same with fracking, it’s destroying our land
and water mass, poisoning us with chemicals, but you turn your head. The Koch’s
get away with it all, even Keystone XL, but we’re worried about the civil wars
in small Middle Eastern countries? Corporations are people, spying is okay, and
there are mosquito drones. I guess that’s all for our own good, too, right? You
have got to be kidding me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So, Mr. President, please do tell me, who is more
treasonous? The American government that has sabotaged our American
Constitution or Ed Snowden for leaking what a sham we are? Who should really be
held accountable? You have allowed war to be waged against our own people on
our own soil. You have allowed room for mass genocide of your own people through
the works of Monsanto, the Kochs, and a few others. You have waged a war
against our U.S. Constitution by ignoring the laws by which we are governed to
fit a political agenda. Who should be held accountable for treason? Who are the
world’s greatest terrorists? I have a dollar that says globally the other
nations, including our own, would scream America. I want my America back,
President, what are you going to do for me and my people? Do tell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Till the next time,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pam <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-23505880988186138492013-08-07T06:38:00.001-04:002013-08-07T12:32:02.173-04:00PLEASE READ AND PASS ON: CHRISTINE MORRIS<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.gofundme.com/3shy4g">http://www.gofundme.com/3shy4g<o:p></o:p></a></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I began putting this article together about a week ago. My
intention was to help alleviate some of the financial stress and pressure on a
family that has fallen on very hard times. I wanted to help raise money for
their bills and the funeral that was going to be coming in the near future. As
I write this in the early morning, that time is here. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I feel the need to share her story. She was a special person.
She was a heart person. Christine was born in December of 1978. Ten years after
her birth her mother passed away from small cell ovarian cancer, leaving her
and her younger brother, Adam, with their father, who suffered from Type 1
Diabetes, her Grandmother, who suffered from chronic emphysema, and her Aunt
Donna. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As the years passed, Christine became the main caretaker. Her
Aunt Donna moved out, had a child, and began working, leaving her mother to
babysit, which, in turn, fell on Christine’s shoulders. She went to school,
cooked, and cleaned. While home she catered to her father, grandmother, her
brother, and her cousin. She did the best she could with what she had. To many,
she earned the title: “Cinderella.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1998, her father passed away, leaving her orphaned at 17. A
month later she lost her grandmother. By now she had her own daughter, Jessica.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, Christine was a single teen mom. She struggled. She did
have a lot of help from her Aunt Donna and Uncle Tim Duncan, and her Aunt
Deanne. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Then one day she met the love of her life, Bill Morris. All bets
were against them. Against the advice of most, they married.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They struggled, like we all do, and they had another daughter,
Carolyn.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As they grew up together, they grew stronger as a couple.
Christine worked hard for what she had, and so did Bill, together, they didn’t
have a lot materially, but they had built a Morris Empire, they had more than
most, they had love.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Christine was a wonderful mother. She became the mother she always
wished she had. The bond she had with both of her daughters was limitless and
beautiful. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Christine would give you her last dollar, her last loaf of
bread, or drive you someplace on her last gallon of gas. She would give
whatever she had if you needed it. What she couldn’t give with money, she gave
with time. She was passionate and very alive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Months back Christine started having female issues and decided
to simply have a hysterectomy. She thought it was the safest thing to do since
she could possibly be genetically linked to the same small cell carcinoma that
took her mom. All the pre tests came back negative. She went in for the surgery
and tumors were discovered. She was diagnosed with Stage III Ovarian Cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The next few months, through surgery after surgery, chemo
treatment after chemo treatment, through wig after wig, Christine kept her
vivacious spirit intact. If you didn’t know the situation you would never know
she was suffering from such a serious form of cancer. I assume she hid a lot to
keep from letting anyone know. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She was unchanged, even after they told her she was now in Stage
IV. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As her body weakened, walking became harder, driving impossible.
She began depending on her daughter Jessica to drive. She was losing her
independence, but her spirit remained intact. She forced herself to do the
family trips they do together every year, because she wasn’t going to let her
family down. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As Christine grew weaker Bill began missing work, losing time
and money, to take care of her needs, which were growing daily. The financial
issues, though not a word has been said, have to take a toll.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Today, Christine’s daughters, Carolyn 13 and Jessica 16, lost
their mom, their best cheerleader and best friend, and Bill lost the love of
his life. Christine passed away this afternoon. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am begging each one of you that reads this article to donate
at least a single dollar to help raise money for Christine’s funeral. It’s a
secure link and the money will all go straight to the family to help ease their
burden. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you for reading and please donate…they are in dire need.
This is my Christine Russell Morris Fund Link:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.gofundme.com/3shy4g">http://www.gofundme.com/3shy4g<o:p></o:p></a></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is my personal open
letter to my cousin, Christine:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dear Christine,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I hope my words somehow reach you. You were a beautiful woman
with a beautiful spirit. So many times I wanted to come and sit by your side
silently and simply hold your hand, but it was a time for immediate family. We
talked about it, I hope you understand.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have a lot of great memories of you. You always made me smile
and sometimes laugh pretty hard. My memories have danced through my head
thousands of times.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Your illness has taught Dave not to waste a minute of life,
because it’s fragile and short. A long life isn’t promised. Without even
realizing it, you gave him a gift. He wanted to come and see you, but couldn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You did a phenomenal job raising Jess and Carolyn, your
mothering will carry them. They are beautiful and smart young ladies and they
will hear your whisper guide them. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here, there is a lot of sadness and grief, but that’s ours to suffer,
your suffering is over. It’s your time to fly free, little one, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>go fly with the angels…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I love you,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pam<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #02d090; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.gofundme.com/3shy4g">http://www.gofundme.com/3shy4g</a></span></i></b>Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-45264885730234113272013-07-29T17:11:00.001-04:002013-07-29T17:11:13.422-04:00America Fallen: Chained and Shackled
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
had a short discussion with a friend, Stephen Hayes, who told me that
eventually people will wake up and we will win. I admire Stephen, whom I met on
the steps of the Michigan Capital during a demonstration against Public Act 4,
the emergency manager law. Like me, Stephen is a freedom fighter, a
constitutionalist. He is a true American that continues to hold on to the
values of what it used to mean to be an American. Sadly, we’ve been bought and
sold. Americans, who used to lead the world in education, technology, freedom,
and democracy has fallen. Greed, power, and our own ignorance have diminished
us to third world status, medically, mentally, educationally, religiously, and
economically. There is no freedom left in our nation, we are prisoners, nothing
more, or less.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
people rallied around laws that took so much of our freedom, The Patriot Act, Patriot
Act II, and National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The government used
fear, Hitler’s greatest modifier, to gain both control and support of the
people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
have had too many conversations with the religious fundamentalists that cast
their votes of discrimination and hide behind God. I don’t understand this
group the most. So many don’t believe the world even existed before Jesus
Christ. They claim the earth is only a few thousand years old. With that
belief, they vote? This is the group that protests and votes against our American
freedom the most. They cast the same judgment the bible they thump warns
against. They use God as their excuse to vote against abortion and gay rights
when their bible doesn’t sustain it. Do they not know Jesus never spoke on
sexual issues of any kind? Do they not understand that Leviticus is the only
book of the bible that speaks against sexual sins? Yes, they know, but they choose
to ignore Jesus to levy stones at those that don’t fit into their own mold of
what other people should be. With the same self-righteous hand of judgment they
continue to cast votes against feeding their own people. They back the murder
of war, believing they are saving their own asses while they bash another for
simply loving. They are an abomination against the same Jesus they claim is
their savior. This is the sect of the Politicians Dream. They learned long ago
how to work these people, via manipulation of God, they planted the seed and
the God fearing followed. Jesus did say: “You fed me when I was hungry, gave me
drink when I was thirsty, clothed me when I was naked, took care of me when I
was sick, and came to visit me when I was imprisoned.” He said this to a man
that didn’t follow God. Nowhere did he say this man got to the gates of Heaven
because he cast judgment on why someone was hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, or
imprisoned. Jesus didn’t stick a star on the man’s head for judging on
homosexuality or other sins so he could hold back the gifts of his kindness.
The entire point of the story was to help, no matter what, your fellow human
beings. You take care of your own, no matter what their beliefs, sins, or
lifestyle, because the people of God, in the name of Jesus Christ, have
absolutely no room to judge. So many of these voters are committed to the Koch
created Tea Party. It’s scary, but true, that so many are so easily led by
propaganda and media. It’s even scarier that they don’t research anything
beyond appointed sites that confirm what the propaganda has taught them. I
guess they don’t even see the hypocrisy in their actions, their preachers haven’t
told them, neither has Fox News, so they are oblivious. After all, the earth is
only a bit over 2000 years old anyway, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
don’t understand why people, other than the fundamentalists, are so blind to
what is happening, not only in America, but in every municipality in the
nation. It seems the republicans are blindsiding us from every angle, keeping
our heads spinning with insane bills and laws. It’s hard to keep up on a
national scale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There
has been a political attack on our freedom since NAFTA. Even then I saw the
grave consequences we would pay for free trade. Our jobs relocated. Yes, the politicians
like to blame the unions. Corporations like to blame the unions, as well. They
had to lay the blame somewhere, because the politicians didn’t want the truth
known. They were falling to the feet of the lobbyists and corporate money,
period. The truth is the labor union kept productivity and wage high. It sat
the standard for decent wage, health benefits, decent working conditions, and
the forty hour work week. Due to the hard work of the labor force our nation’s
base was strong, rich, because the middle class taxes carried the American economy.
As the free trade countries grew, our economy fell. As the rich became richer
the poor and middle class became poorer. In reality, it’s only common sense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
are no longer controlled by the patriotic American; we are controlled by the
dreams and desires of Corporate America. It’s so easy to see if you open your
eyes. All the talk of privatizing everything should be enough to shake one
awake, even from the deepest propagandized American Dream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Republicans are pushing for the most insane bills imaginable. In Texas, they are
pushing to outlaw critical thinking in our schools through censure. We have
another pressing to outlaw oral and anal sex. We have laws being pushed to make
it illegal to be gay and to have abortions. Yet, while in the doctor’s office
the other day he was giving out free samples of Viagra. Go figure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
have politicians fighting to rid the nation of mandatory education, child labor
laws, unions, health care, social security, retirement, food stamps, food
labeling, and protections by the government we deserve. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
Michigan it’s totally obvious. The man I can’t even call the governor, the imp,
the phony, the man licking the bottom of the Corporate Koch shoes, Rick Snyder,
has made a mockery of democracy and the constitution. Personally, I think he should
be arrested and charged with treason. The bankruptcy in Detroit is a farce and
just a part of the corporate plan. Privatize everything after all the city can’t
afford it. Fellow republicans support this, but I doubt the simple man even
understands where this will lead. Education would be taught by the values and
morals of corporate institutions and obviously, they don’t have any. The premise
of “by and for the people” would be dead. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Michigan Imp has pretty much deleted the “by and for” part of being American.
This is a man that ignored a pending vote on the new Detroit Bridge, signing
for it, even though it wouldn’t create jobs in Michigan, before the vote in
November. I watched the clip of Snyder laughing when questioned about his
untimely signing. His words were “why would I wait?” That clip has since
disappeared from the internet, like so many others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When
the people voted against Public Act 4, the emergency financial manager law, he rewrote
it and named it Public Act 436, it’s the same law. The vote didn’t count. The
people don’t count. Above all, the crux of our democracy, our voting system,
doesn’t count. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now,
before you bash me, again, this is what I want. I want clear and fair voting
rights. I think we should be more like Australia. I think every American who is
of voting age the day of election should have to vote. I don’t think they
should have to go to a polling booth or show identification. I think they
should be able to go on their personal computer, type in their social security
number, and cast their vote. If they can’t use a computer then they should go
to the polling booth. It would cut costs, time, lines, and suppression. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want to stop the billions of dollars of foreign aid. I don’t want to supply military
welfare in the form of lives, dollars, and equipment. This form of welfare
needs to end. I want an end to corporate welfare. It contributes to the poverty
and the fall of America. Corporate control and American freedom can’t and don’t
mix.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want to stop the media from its propaganda. I want to read from an American new
source and be able to believe it without two added hours of researching the
truth only to find the media lied, again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want the republican policy makers to quit making laws against our own people. I
want the American Government out of everybody’s personal life on a global
scale. We need out of Iraqi, Egyptian, Syrian, Iranian, Pakistani, and Israeli
affairs. It’s time for the Americans to mind their own business. I know if
there was another American revolution I wouldn’t appreciate Russia or China
sneaking in our back door giving aid to their choice of an American leader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want America to quit talking out of both sides of their mouths. I want each and
every politician to be accountable for the lobbyists they bob their heads for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want bills brought without pork slid in. I’m sure the government would hate
this, so would the lobbyists, but a bill should be a straight bill, only one
issue, not a bunch of lobbyists desires that get pushed through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want the politicians to have to read and fully understand every bill they sign
to avoid the pork they claim they didn’t know existed. If they can’t manage
that task then every bill should be brought before the people for a vote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want to make every vote count without the need for delegates and electoral
votes. This isn’t the day of Paul Revere; nobody has to wait on the mail. The
public vote should be the only vote that matters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want politicians that can run for office on their own honor and merit without
having to sling mud, like a child, at their opponent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For
God’s sake and the sake of this country and all we are based on, I want
politicians that are honest, that can’t be bought, that care only about
preserving our American Constitution and our freedom that is promised through
it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want people to be people and corporations to be corporations. I want lobbyists
outlawed and the politicians that cater to the lobbyists charged with treason.
If power and laws can be bought it is against the people and is treasonous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want to rid our politics of the damned two party system. I watched a president
fight for his position in the courts and I watched another lose her votes by
the party that turned on her. I’m sure I know who those lobbyists were. How
dare any party take away my vote, Michigan votes, Florida votes, or any vote of
the American people? It’s time to allow those to run without party backing, on
their own merit, without lobbyists lining their pockets and funding huge smear
campaigns. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
want an honest nation, honest politicians, honest markets, and fair wages. I
want our elderly not to worry about medications or nutrition. I want our
children to be granted a fair education without having to worry about eating
dinner. I want jobs to be plentiful and health to be abundant. It used to be
that way in my land, not anymore, today we are scrappers, beggars for minor
scraps of what the wealthy throw down to us and we have accepted it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To
my international readers: We are all alike in many ways. We all see the global
economy cutting the throats of the working class people. We all love, bleed,
and suffer for families, but we also suffer for the mistakes of our government
and the 1% that have given the politicians the power to do what they have done.
Some of us know the truth and some of us still believe the patriotic propaganda
pushed in our faces. Please know our people are good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
used to be a perfect world until we went corporate.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now, what is my label, conservative? Liberal? Democrat? Republican? Or do I get to claim my fame as simply an American?</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Till
the next time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
always,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pam
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-66179055509742402952013-07-25T12:34:00.000-04:002013-07-25T12:34:05.679-04:00Allen Park: Isn't Hindsight Always 20/20?
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On
March 21, 2012, I posted an article about Allen Park. I named the piece “‘Let’s
Send the Letter’ Allen Park Votes.” I am a journalistic freedom fighter and I
didn’t want the city to fall into the hands of dominate control. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
an interview I had with Mayor Matakas he stated: “I’d rather fight a devil I
can see than the one I can’t.” I didn’t know he had become the target of the
blame, though it wasn’t his. I did know he was doing everything humanly possible
to keep city services intact while preserving the cities attributes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
attended the city council meeting to vote on sending the letter to the state
asking for the help of an emergency financial manager. I couldn’t believe what
I saw. The room was packed. One by one residents approached the podium facing
the Mayor and his council to voice their concerns facing the city. It quickly
became obvious the main concern wasn’t police and fire protection, it wasn’t
education, it wasn’t even trash removal, it was the ice, the hockey arena. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Almost
every person asked about the arena or commented that they wouldn’t allow their
children to go without the arena. A few people approached asking for the arena
to be sold to a private owner before an EFM was appointed to protect it. Nobody
spoke to save the police and fire departments or the city services. Nobody volunteered
any personal help or ideas that would assist in pulling themselves out of the
crisis. Recreation and sport was of supreme importance. A handful of people,
including myself, shook their heads in disbelief. The council placated the
crowd. The Mayor tried to explain, but was repeatedly interrupted and berated
by Dennis Hayes. I realized many had become exactly what the imperialists had
been working on for years. Americans had dummied down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
State warned against sending the letter before the emergency May 8<sup>th</sup>
election, but the council voted to send it right away. The people cheered. I
watched the Mayor. He knew the implications of the EFM, the people didn’t. He
had worked day and night to find a way out without the residents losing financial
control of their city. He lost. His only hope was the emergency election on raising
the tax base by 4 mills, for two years, would pass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After
the meeting was adjourned and the crowd began to disperse I saw the look of
defeat on Mayor Matakas face. I approached him and shook his hand. We shared
looks which said: “God forgive them, they know not what they do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
wrote the article and instantly I was ripped to shreds by the people of Allen
Park. I was told I should be tarred and feathered and ran out of town. The
comments poured in, mainly insulting comments, without any real basis. Some
blamed the current Mayor for sucking up to the police because of his son in law
or some other farfetched reason. Few agreed Mayor Matakas inherited the
situation from the previous Mayor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
continued to write urging Allen Park to vote in the 4 mill increase for two years.
The result was a string of insults by people that absolutely refused to pay an
extra penny in taxes to help their own situation. As I continued to warn them,
they continued to bash, insult, and berate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
two-year, 4 mill increase failed. EFM appointed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Look
where Allen Park was just a few short months after that May 8<sup>th</sup>
vote. The Allen Park Recreation Center was leased out. It’s now a privately
controlled entity. They lost control of their prized possession. It was a finalized
deal by November 2012. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now,
EFM Joyce Parker has a new ballet proposal coming on August 6<sup>th</sup>. It’s
not the same deal the Mayor had worked out for two years to keep the city from
falling in the states hands, it’s a new one. Joyce is proposing a 10 year 6.75
mill levy, which includes the 3.5 mill already being paid, and there’s a catch.
It isn’t a simple refusal for the voters. If the 6.75 mill levy isn’t voted in
there are grave consequences. It isn’t a threat, or a strong arm, it’s a fact. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">EFM
Parker has a Plan B. If the tax increase isn’t passed 15 firefighters and 6
police officers will lose their jobs. There will be one furlough day without
pay and the streetlights will need to be assessed. With this there may be a
consolation of services. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Allen Park residents have voted themselves into a lose lose situation. Had they
voted in the 4 mill, two year increase in May of 2012, they would have saved themselves
a bundle in property tax dollars. What Ms. Parker isn’t revealing is that she
has the power, vote or no vote, to instill the proposed tax increase. The vote
means nothing. If you go against the vote she can put all of her promised Plan
B tactics into effect and still take the 6.75 mills. That’s the new way in
America. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
only advice I can give the City of Allen Park is to vote out Snyder in November.
Take your city back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Till
the next time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hindsight
is always 20/20,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03083497010700464162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895895414828206273.post-88542430173081541162013-07-22T21:01:00.001-04:002013-07-22T21:01:21.326-04:00Detroit Bankruptcy: Test Tube Politics
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I spent a large part of the day reading and
researching the bankruptcy in Detroit. Yes, I am well aware of the dilapidated,
poverty embellished, neighborhoods. Yes, I am aware of the mismanagement of the
city funds. I know all about top heavy governments and the rotted morals of the
people in power. I am even aware of the mismanagement of county funds appropriated
for the new Detroit jail. I know all about greed, privatization, and free
enterprise. I understand the money owed and the accrued deficit. In the other
vein, I also understand the role of an emergency financial manager, the
dictatorship role it gives our governor, and who funds the beat of the drum
that Rick Snyder dances to. </span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I read, article after article, about the
population drop from 1950 until 2010. I understand the tax base dropped from
the decline of residents to 70,000 from 1.8 million. Newsflash, the powers that
be watched the decay chase residents away from their homes in the Detroit
neighborhoods. Blame democrats or republicans, it doesn’t matter, it all comes
down to the same issue, nobody cared as long as their pockets were being lined.
They didn’t have to live there so it didn’t matter. </span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">When NAFTA (North American Free Trade
Agreement) allowed our big manufacturing plants to move to Mexico and hire
slave labor, people backed it. They actually believed it would better our
economy. How could they believe outsourcing our jobs could be good for our
economy? I have no idea, it’s a no brainer to me, all it did was give large
corporations the incentive to move to an area and pay pennies on a dollar
without protections or benefits to the slave labor trade. NAFTA became the catalyst
to many more free trade agreements which crippled not only Detroit, but all the
industrial and manufacturing fed cities. </span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Mayor, after Mayor, bonded the mainlined growth
on the riverfront. As the neighborhoods began to decompose they were deemed
unimportant. The residents complained to the city about the house on their
street that worried them. They feared it nourished the bad element, housing
drug dens, prostitution, rape, and other dangerous situations for their
children. They were ignored. The main concern remained the riverfront
development. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">In 2000, a law was passed by the City of
Detroit that allowed police and fire employees to move outside of the city
limits. Detroit’s finest fled like birds flying south to protect themselves
from the winter that was about to hit the city. </span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Soon, plants began to close, leaving the skeletons
of a once prosperous industrial economy. The neighborhoods were abandoned by
those that could flee, leaving 78,000 abandoned buildings behind. Of course,
crime would soar off the charts, the people became hungry and there wasn’t any
relief in sight.</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Adding the salt to the already gaping wound, Snyder
rids free enterprise of the business tax. This robbed the cities of the taxes
needed to supplement their school systems. Detroit schools diminish and fail on
every level. The suburban school systems welcome school of choice students to
feed their own falling incomes with the over $5,000 per head, paid by the state,
to teach an outsourced student. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">These aren’t reasons, they aren’t excuses, it
is simply the republican agenda. When you know the agenda is to privatize and
nourish free enterprise, it all makes sense. The original plan is working, the
people duped buy into the pushed propaganda. </span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Oh, please don’t act like propaganda is
something that only other countries use against us. Our government has been
blinding our people since day one. It’s the supplement to any agenda. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Today, I know the damage and destruction the
Koch brothers have done and continue to do to us, environmentally, politically,
financially, and personally. I totally understand their ability to pocket the politicians
and to fund their success. I get it. Do you? </span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">If you are aware of the truth you will
understand why the signing of the new Detroit Canadian Bridge is a farce, you
will understand the purpose of union busting, you will finally see, with
clarity, why our food is poisoned, legally, and why our gas prices are so high.
You will fully grasp the concept of free enterprise and privatization and how
it can’t stand erect in a free country. The division of wealth has become too
enormous to maintain freedom. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">In Utah, there is a bill to abolish mandatory
education for our children. In Maine, they want to shelve child labor laws.
Nationally, they think of raising the retirement age to 70. They have tried,
and succeeded in censuring our internet, pulling as many incriminating videos,
reports, and recordings as possible. They wire tap us, they spy on us, and they
can violate our freedoms of speech. They can arrest us and detain us indefinitely
without charges. They can order our own military to attack our own people on
our own soil. They can implant their politicians and silence other’s. They can
sign for bridges, with an impish imperialist grin, knowing they violated the
voting process and severed our constitution. They have made a mockery of our
freedom, of our constitution, and of America, and Detroit matters, why?</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Detroit is going to be the test city. If Koch,
Snyder, and Orr win in court on the bankruptcy it’s going to create a domino
effect. City after city will follow suit to abandon responsibility to the creditors
(which will be settled for a percentage of the original debt, either way), the elderly,
the retirees, and the poor. Billionaires will flock to rescue (purchase)
assets, school systems, police forces, ambulance companies, and fire
departments. These people will be employees of Free Enterprise and they will
follow the rules of those employers, not of the United States Constitution.
Students in a privatized school will be taught only what the school owners want
to be taught. We will become brainwashed, breathing, controlled human drones without
any say in our destination. We will become nothing more than test subjects, which
we basically are now. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So, why shouldn’t Detroit be allowed to file
Chapter 9 through an EFM? Because that EFM is appointed by a dictator that is
owned by David and Charles Koch, and they are as anti constitution, anti
collective bargaining, and anti environment as they come. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">As we continue to believe that our answer lies
in the private sector we are tying a noose around the neck of the very freedom
that once made us the strongest, the most educated, the most powerful nation in
the world. We have become their test subjects; they polluted our minds, our
food, and our freedom with carcinogens and propaganda.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">With all the decay and degradation, Detroit,
and their people have stood their ground with so very little to work with. The
people treaded water because they had no other way out. The city has beautiful
attributes that are about to be stripped away. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Michigan’s heart lies in Detroit and it’s
about to be manually stopped.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Till the next time,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sadly,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Pam</span></span></div>
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