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12/03/08
Things do change, all the time, but we often don't really notice until our world is shaken and the change impinges on our everyday life with either tragedy or great joy. Sometimes we don't even notice then, if our senses and intellect are hardened or already overwhelmed with pain and unhappiness. Several milestones are underfoot for me as I write this. I was another year older last week, and it's a sobering thing to contemplate. I realized this as I cleaned out a box of odds and ends collected over many years of active field nursing. Each night I'd empty my pockets into the box so the uniform could go into the wash. I fully intended to sort the things out and put them back in my pockets the next day, but often it just didn't happen and the box eventually filled. Now, since I've retired from the field and have a "desk job", the discovery of the box was a poignant reminder of all the years, tears, challenges and joys. I sorted, tossed most of it, and relived some of a most wonderful period in my life. (Read the rest here)
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Polls: Bush, Kerry
tied in three, Bush leads in two
Give
Me Some Space Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a NASA nut. In fact, a significant number of people who don't know me know that I'm a NASA nut. But just because I'm a nut doesn't mean I'm crazy! I'm all too well aware that NASA is a government agency funded by tax dollars. I'm a little unhappy about the former given that the word "government" doesn't often appear next to a word like "innovative" or efficient," and an agency like NASA needs to be both. I'm a lot unhappy about the latter because, though I think the space program is invaluable, I'm not fond of the government forcing people to hand over their hard-earned cash for much of anything outside legitimate national defense. (Read the rest here)
Is
the Federal Government Supreme and Above the States?
While observing the proceedings in a federal District Court, I was taken-back by the blatant arrogance of the judge masquerading as a constitutional officer. The case involved a civil dispute between two corporations. After setting a briefing schedule and reading the opposing attorneys the riot act concerning the conduct of his courtroom, the judge did something that illustrates the extent of the usurpation of power being perpetrated by the federal government. When one of attorneys told the judge he was unavailable for a motion hearing because he was scheduled to be in state court for a murder trial that same day, the judge came out of his chair and told the attorney to remind the state judge of the "supremacy clause" of the United States Constitution. He went on to state that since the federal government is supreme and above the States, the judge in murder case would have to change the date of the trial to accommodate the federal proceedings in his courtroom. If this federal judge had not been a constitutional renegade, he would have never asserted that the federal government is supreme and above the States. (Read the rest here)
Defeat The Press
- The State Silences Dissent!
Rapidly escalating manifestations of the state's growing paranoia, exemplified by the ever increasing production of hastily executed draconian legislation and the overzealous array of unsubstantiated prosecutions, are all the more noticeable now as the public increasingly comes to grips with the lost, unjust and unnecessary war in Iraq. It is viewed as just another byproduct of a corrupt political system generating increasing voter realization of the lack of choice in this year's presidential election. Freedoms once taken for granted have eroded in a Darwinian-like time warp devolution totally unnoticed by a general public distracted by "reality TV," NASCAR, the World Series and the new football season. Celebrated media figures of neoconservative right-wing blather, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, have been subjected to muck attacks following revelations about their personal lives. On the wrong-headed "left," Dan Rather follows the Jayson Blair disgrace of The New York Times by being "fooled" relying heavily upon forged documents to discredit President Bush, cursorily examined in a fashion similar to President Bush's dependency on bogus WMD intelligence to discredit Saddam Hussein.
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