Maybe it is time to stop playing politics and stop playing on emotions to push through PERSONAL AGENDAS and start dealing with the REAL PROBLEMS involved.
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Poor People
Fight to save Gary Harvey of New York!
Common Sense Available for All
Sara! Sara, come back! Don’t leave me here.
Tragically, Gary Harvey of Horsehead, NY fell down the basement stairs in January of 2006 and received a traumatic head injury. Since that time, he has either been in a nursing home or in the hospital and is under the guardianship of the county. Ironically, the county, who claims to be looking out for their ward’s best interest, was involved in a so-called ethics committee decision that Gary Harvey should be starved and dehydrated to death. The judge over-ruled the call for execution of an innocent man, though a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) remains in effect. Sara Harvey, Gary’s wife, is desperately fighting to get him home. One can only wonder how much he knows of what is going on around him. The following could be what he is thinking as he lays alone in that room, so isolated from the world he knew and the wife and friends he so loves. * * *
It’s so quiet. I think I hear someone walking down the hall. Do they know I am here? Where is my Sara? Why isn’t she here? I miss her voice and the special sound of her laughter. I miss her gentle touch. The gentle and tender touch that tells me she loves me and that everything is going to be okay. Why can’t I feel that now? Where is she? Why doesn’t she come to see me? Is she tired of me? Am I too big a burden? Is there someone else in her life now? How long have I been here? How many days have passed?
I’m sure of it. I hear someone walking down the hall. Are they coming to see me? Is it Sara? Why do they keep walking by? Don’t they know I’m here? Why doesn’t someone open the door and just say, “hi” and tell me that it is okay? Can’t someone tell me when my Sara will be here? When will she come to see me? I wonder if they would call her, if I ask?
I hear someone again. I hear them walking away. I want to call out. I’m trying to call out. Why can’t I? Why is there only silence? Am I dead?
No, I can’t be. If I were dead, I wouldn’t be able to hear them. I wouldn’t be able to hear their footsteps and the rattling of carts. I wouldn’t be able to hear their laughter and sometimes their whispers. So, why can’t they hear me? Why can’t I hear me? Why are there no sounds beyond the thoughts that ramble and torment? Sara! Sara, why aren’t you here? I need to talk with you. I need to know everything is okay and you still love me. Did I do something wrong? Did I make you hate me so much that you have left me here alone with them? Left me wherever this is? Left me alone to hear the echo of their footsteps and the isolation of such aloneness as I never knew was possible?
Sara, it’s cold here. It’s dark and there is no laughter to touch the moment. There is no you to say we are going home soon and that you love me still. You do love me, don’t you? We will be going home, won’t we? Is that you, Sara? Is that you that I hear walking down the hall? Is that you coming to take me home or to tell me when you shall?
Why are they whispering? Why are they saying I’m gone? I’m not gone. I’m here waiting for you. Sara! Sara, come back! Don’t leave me here. Don’t leave me in this darkness without you. I love you! I’ll always love you! I promise, I will be a better husband, if I wasn’t a good one before. Please, Sara, please don’t leave me here with them. I’m scared. I think they want me to die!
First published on Dakota Voice on August 18th, 2011
No mind cloning here: Colion Noir Speaks Out
Russell Simmons, what about Colion Noir bothers you? His opinion is different than yours and people might just listen?
For more information read:
Russell Simmons Slams NRA for Hiring Black Spokesman
Chuck Todd wonders what candidate Obama would say about this
Is it Hillary’s fault? John McCain’s? Bush didn’t think this up, did he?
Obama talking the talk but skipping the walk?
Chuck Todd on Obama’s new group. Why isn’t his coverage viral via the mainstream media?
Gary Harvey Series: In Darkness & Isolation
Gary Harvey of “warehoused scenario central”, New York, is living in an inexcusable isolation! What visits this man is allowed are limited, restricted and supervised. Permission must be obtained to even touch him. A kiss on the cheek must also be approved by the authority now deemed in control of his very existence. An authority that seems to enjoy toying with the lives and emotions of those they can control and the friends and loved ones that have dared to challenge or question their decisions, behaviors and directives.
Chemung County, New York, supposedly cares for its wards, even the ones they claim not to want, but then fight desperately to keep. Their decisions are always in the best interest of those wards, right? (That’s what they say anyway.) This then makes one wonder why they would hesitate to make sure the eye care that Gary Harvey gets is top-notch (they certainly aren’t paying for it) and to stay on top of what might be an eye problem in the making or a condition getting worse.
Gary Harvey suffers from a traumatic brain injury. That’s true. However, no one knows how far he could come along, if he were to receive therapy and stimulation, such as having frequent visitors who are allowed to touch him and give him a kiss on the cheek, just because giving him a kiss on the cheek might be a gesture of affection he is needing. No one knows and it seems like those in control — simply don’t care.
Gary has been forced to live in this man-made isolation for years now. One would think it couldn’t get worse, but it might. Gary might end up in darkness as well as isolation. Who will care though? Chemung County authorities or Kevin Moshier?
(Article originally posted on American Clarion – March 7, 2013.)
Colorado Sen. Evie Hudak’s concealed carry stats don’t apply in case
Where are these inaccurate statistics coming from?
Let’s hold the lawmakers accountable for the misinformation they are spreading!
Control Grab: Politics of the Self-Serving
According to the Washington Post article, “Biden, in Connecticut, makes fiery plea for gun control in speech near Newtown”, VP Joe Biden is quoted as saying:
“I can’t imagine how we will be judged as a society if we do nothing,” Biden said. “If you’re concerned about your political survival, you should be concerned about the survival of our children. And guess what? I believe the price to be paid politically should go to those who refuse to act. . . . The American people are with us.”
VP Joe Biden, President Obama
Well, I, on the other hand, can’t imagine how we will be judged as a society due to self-serving politicians using the horrific deaths of innocent children to push through their control agendas. Such politicians should be ashamed of themselves.
It wasn’t a gun owner that killed the little children in Newtown, Connecticut. It was merely a kid, who took guns that did not belong to him. A kid that apparently had mental issues. The latter being what the focus should be on. What made him capable of such horrors? What set him off and sent him on the crazed killing spree of innocent ones? Were there any signs? Was there any stopping him or was there a tragedy just waiting to happen one way or another?
Law-abiding gun owners did not kill the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary, yet they are being held accountable as if they did.
Biden can’t imagine how our society will be judged if the politicians don’t swiftly restrict the lawful gun owner? The gun owner that hadn’t a thing to do with the devastation?
Dianne Feinstein
What about the mental illness and illogical thought that is the core to such horrendous and tragic incidents being played out? That’s where the killings begin, not what law is on the books for the law-abiding citizens that just happen to exist in the same world as those who are prone, or could be prone, to acting out in such an unspeakable fashion.
It bears repeating…
The gun may have been the weapon of choice for some, but never doubt that a troubled mind bent on killing, will find a means and a method. It’s time to deal with the real problem – the troubled mind – rather than playing politics with tragedies such as the one that played out at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Shame on the politicians who are using the innocent little ones to push through a personal agenda. One day, reason shall return and you shall be judged within its light. When that happens, you shall find that fancy words, polls, ads and propaganda will no longer serve you. The people will be onto you and your motives. You shall then be scorned and mocked. Your hopeful legacy shall be invalidated.
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN TO HEADLINE TERRI’S DAY
Memorial Mass with Archbishop Chaput and Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network Award Gala/Dinner with Governor Sarah Palin Highlight Day’s Events
Philadelphia, PA – March 4, 2013 – The national controversy that erupted over the court-ordered decision that ended Terri Schiavo’s life by removing her feeding tube in 2005 has been channeled into a positive effort of awareness, education and advocacy through the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network (Narberth, PA) that supports thousands of families worldwide. Terri’s Day, held April 5 in Philadelphia, marks an annual day of recognition and commemoration.
Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will celebrate “The National Memorial Mass for Terri’s Day” on Friday, April 5th, 2013 at 5:00pm at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, 18th Street & the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. All are invited and encouraged to attend.
Governor Sarah Palin will be the honored speaker at the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network’s Award Gala and dinner following the mass, scheduled to begin at 6:30pm at the downtown Philadelphia Marriott. During the gala, the inaugural “Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Award” will be presented to Moe & Sana Maraachli. The award honors an individual or family that defended the life of a loved one against overwhelming odds. Deborah Flora, actress, producer, radio talk show host and second runner-up to Miss America, will preside as emcee at the gala, which will include addresses from award-winning author and bioethicist Wesley Smith and critically acclaimed author and speaker Brian Gail, plus several celebrity video addresses.
Terri’s Day was established by Terri Schiavo’s family to remember her and foster education, prayer and activism regarding discrimination against the cognitively disabled, and advocacy for people in situations similar to what Terri and her family faced.
“Terri’s life and legacy continue to live on, as our nation is now aware of the immediate threat placed upon the hundreds of thousands of persons with cognitive disabilities,” says Bobby Schindler, Terri’s brother and Executive Director of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network. “We invite churches to hold memorial services and to educate their congregations about the dignity of every human life, despite any disability or disease. We encourage the media and educational institutions to help dispel the myths and inaccuracies about Terri’s life and death by providing accurate, factual information. And we invite all people to reflect on the ethical considerations of caring for the weak and vulnerable.”
For more information, or to purchase tickets for the gala and dinner with Governor Palin, visit Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network’s website at www.lifeandhope.com.
About the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Award
Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network was established by the surviving family members of Terri Schiavo to protect the medically vulnerable. It has communicated with and supported more than 1,000 families, and has been involved in hundreds of cases since Terri’s death. Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network was the recipient of the Gerard Health Foundation Life Prizes Award for its efforts in protecting the value and dignity of the profoundly brain injured.
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Brilliant or Hilarious: Joe Biden’s Shotgun Advice for Women
A shotgun is good advice? Really, Joe?
The Sequester: Obama Then & Now
Whose fault was the sequester again?
Krauthammer on Obama and the Cuts
Whoops! the Republicans didn’t fall for the maneuvering this time! ~Carrie
Madness
Madness looks into my eyes and speaks with drooling words of pure deceit. It thinks I shan’t know or notice? Does it suppose that once it utters its blatant lies that they shall somehow become the ultimate truth to touch reality now and in all tomorrows to be?
Oh, to wonder what it thinks is to chase the empty shadows of the night. There is no reason within the thoughts to grasp or to hold, nor to define as any sense of sanity possessed.
Oh yes, madness tells me I did all that I did not and that I said all that never touched my lips or even my silent thoughts. It does say though whatever it will and demands that I willingly agree. All must be my fault, after all, for it is the god of all that is enlightenment that says such to be so, and I am only one that travels in servitude through their world of the elite privilege and dominate control.
I am no one in the eyes of the self-appointed enlightened, who writes and rewrites history and the claims of a truth to fit whatever is to its benefit at any given moment.
Madness shakes in uncontrollable response, as I dare to refuse its lies and deceit to become mine or to shade anything I have done or said. It calls out that I must… I must… I must agree to its claims and do as it bids for “it is the right thing to do”.
As the drool slides down its distorted face of madness, I smile. I turn. I walk away. I leave it in the darkness of the night to chase the shadows of nothingness that it has become. I leave it there to destroy itself, as I walk into the rewards of truth that shines upon the day and the world that is mine and perhaps yours as well.
Copyrighted by Carrie K. Hutchens 2013
Reid & The Obligation: The Insanity Continues
It’s Friday, March 1, 2013, and the insanity is still evolving.
From “Sen. Reid to Press: ‘You Guys Have an Obligation to Report’ the Democrats Are Right” by Elizabeth Harrington (CNSNews – Feb. 28, 2013):
During a news conference on Capitol Hill held on the eve of implementation of the cuts, known on Capitol Hill as “The Sequester,” a reporter asked Reid: “Can you understand the frustration of the American people that you’re blaming the Republicans, the Republicans are blaming you and nobody is talking until the day that these cuts kick in?”
Reid replied: “You know I read an editorial today, and I don’t know whether it was the Times or the Post, where the op-ed writer said, ‘You know, let’s call it the way it is. The Republicans aren’t willing to deal with the Democrats.
“So all this stuff–Democrats aren’t doing anything, Republicans aren’t doing anything–I believe that you guys have an obligation to report it the way it is,” he said.
“This isn’t something that happened yesterday, we’ve been fighting this for a couple years,” Reid added. “They’re unwilling to do what the American people want done. And it’s as simple as that.”
Yes, Senator Reid, it would be nice if the entire media reported things the way they are. You and Pelosi might just be out of a job and wondering what went wrong, if they did.
The Democrats readily dismiss budgets and plans proposed by Republicans and don’t pass a budget for how many years now, Mr. Reid? But it is the Republicans fault because they won’t do what the American people want? Really, we are to take your word? How about when you got up there and said that Romney needed to prove he paid taxes because he didn’t — yet he had? Maybe that little invisible friend of yours has told you wrong again.
The sequester idea came from Obama and his team, but to hear the campaign rhetoric, it would seem we are to forget that little bit of information and just blame the Republicans because they won’t do what Obama and followers want.
With regard to Bob Woodward’s disagreement with the White House, there is a statement that stands out:
“What does that matter now?” It matters a great deal when elected officials and their teams are trying to rewrite history and cast blame on others. Yes, that’s something that matters a great deal. So, just like with the fact that the White House should take responsibility for the sequester proposal — other Democrats like yourself, Mr. Reid, should take responsibility for your irresponsibility and lack of action in the past four or five years.
Where, Mr. Reid, is the passed budget that the law required and you ignored?
It is time that the lost media get back to journalism where one reports the facts, rather than blindly accepting the talking points of those who are trying to redefine our nation, rewrite history, cast blame on others, play down the inconvenient facts, insult and insinuate in the face of opposition, and rely upon selective polls that represent what they want them to represent.
Yes, Mr. Reid, you got one thing right. The media has an obligation to report on the facts and the tactics being utilized in Washington, D.C. Are you sure you are ready for that?
Reid & The Obligation: The Insanity Continues
It’s Friday, March 1, 2013, and the insanity is still evolving.
From “Sen. Reid to Press: ‘You Guys Have an Obligation to Report’ the Democrats Are Right” by Elizabeth Harrington (CNSNews – Feb. 28, 2013):
During a news conference on Capitol Hill held on the eve of implementation of the cuts, known on Capitol Hill as “The Sequester,” a reporter asked Reid: “Can you understand the frustration of the American people that you’re blaming the Republicans, the Republicans are blaming you and nobody is talking until the day that these cuts kick in?”
Reid replied: “You know I read an editorial today, and I don’t know whether it was the Times or the Post, where the op-ed writer said, ‘You know, let’s call it the way it is. The Republicans aren’t willing to deal with the Democrats.
“So all this stuff–Democrats aren’t doing anything, Republicans aren’t doing anything–I believe that you guys have an obligation to report it the way it is,” he said.
“This isn’t something that happened yesterday, we’ve been fighting this for a couple years,” Reid added. “They’re unwilling to do what the American people want done. And it’s as simple as that.”
Yes, Senator Reid, it would be nice if the entire media reported things the way they are. You and Pelosi might just be out of a job and wondering what went wrong, if they did.
The Democrats readily dismiss budgets and plans proposed by Republicans and don’t pass a budget for how many years now, Mr. Reid? But it is the Republicans fault because they won’t do what the American people want? Really, we are to take your word? How about when you got up there and said that Romney needed to prove he paid taxes because he didn’t — yet he had? Maybe that little invisible friend of yours has told you wrong again.
The sequester idea came from Obama and his team, but to hear the campaign rhetoric, it would seem we are to forget that little bit of information and just blame the Republicans because they won’t do what Obama and followers want.
With regard to Bob Woodward’s disagreement with the White House, there is a statement that stands out:
“What does that matter now?” It matters a great deal when elected officials and their teams are trying to rewrite history and cast blame on others. Yes, that’s something that matters a great deal. So, just like with the fact that the White House should take responsibility for the sequester proposal — other Democrats like yourself, Mr. Reid, should take responsibility for your irresponsibility and lack of action in the past four or five years.
Where, Mr. Reid, is the passed budget that the law required and you ignored?
It is time that the lost media get back to journalism where one reports the facts, rather than blindly accepting the talking points of those who are trying to redefine our nation, rewrite history, cast blame on others, play down the inconvenient facts, insult and insinuate in the face of opposition, and rely upon selective polls that represent what they want them to represent.
Yes, Mr. Reid, you got one thing right. The media has an obligation to report on the facts and the tactics being utilized in Washington, D.C. Are you sure you are ready for that?