hola12/09/1979
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 Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: HIV |
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| I added a few posts on my account,but for some reason,they aren't showing up.Anyways,I'd like to address a very serious matter.Seems we have an HIV positive male whom has had unprotected sex with many unsuspecting women, as well as underage females,from all over the N.Y. city area as well as Upstate N.Y.He has already infected 1 woman that we know of.But,think of the many that could be infected,and don't know.I'm all about protecting someone's privacy,but this clown needs to be stopped.He is playing russian roulette with too many lives.These woman weren't given a choice.You wouldn't know it by looking at him.He looks healthy,is very charming,has a good job,etc.But,don't let this fool you.His name is Alexander William Mena,also known as "Lex".Alex is originally from Brooklyn N.Y.(The Pitkin Projects)He now resides in Oswego,N.Y.,but has also lived in Watertown as well as other small towns in Upstate N.Y.So,if you or anyone you may know that has had unprotected sex with this man,PLEASE get tested and report it.You can look him up on MYSPACE under"Call me Lex" |
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Guitarista
Joined: 15 Aug 2008
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject: Why I Voted for Barack Obama |
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Courtney, here's a page from my MySpace blog I would like to share with you! Who you vote for is just as important as who you date, so we're not off topic...NOT TODAY ANYHOW!!!
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In My Own Words - Why I Voted for Barack Obama
Hi folks,
By now, many of you have seen my blogs and you know who my candidate is for President in 2008.
Most of my blogs have quoted or copied information from other sites...facts collected by various organizations, opinions from other blogs, articles from magazines, etc.
But now, I want to tell it in my own words.
All of us can find "evidence" and "facts" of all sorts to support our decisions to vote for whomever we choose, and that is our right.
But I think it is time to consider some things that were once said by a very, very brilliant man...one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Albert Einstein.
Einstein was more than just a scientist and a man who sought facts. He was also a very intuitive man who sought "the truth"...and he knew that sometimes one must look deeper than "facts" to find it, because the "facts" that we see in our lives are often based upon the illusions that we experience as prisoners of only a few dimensions.
You may ask, "What the hell is she talking about"?
I'm talking about what is in my heart. And in yours.
I'm talking about what is important to me...and what my priorities are. And what all of our priorities are, in this country. I'm talking about looking at these things with our hearts and our guts, instead of looking at spin and the people who do the spinning.
Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
I believe that two things are true: 1. That Einstein is totally right, and 2. That Barack Obama understands the concept of imagination totally, and has shown us that many times. He has a vision of the world as it might become...and he has faith in that vision.
He also understands another great statement of Einstein, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Barack Obama nearly embodies this very true statement. He is a man of intuition and perception. He knows that the solution to the problems of this nation will not be solved by the old way of thinking or by the old approaches. He knows that, in order to solve our problems and create true change for the better, we must not walk the beaten path.
We must walk into dense forest and create new paths of our own. And these paths must be based upon our new priorities as a nation. Do we WANT to value the workers? Do we WANT to give everyone the opportunity for healthcare? Do we WANT to regain the respect we once had for the art and sciences of Medicine and Nursing, or do we want to continue to hand over control of those noble professions to insurance companies and corporate interests?
Do we WANT all of our children to be given an equal opportunity for a good education? Do we WANT to care for our elderly, sick, and disabled? Do we WANT to care for one another, as human beings? Do we WANT to value one another, as human beings of merit, as creatures of God?
Or is competition and the "free market" so much more important? Is the military-industrial complex and all of its waste and bureaucracy so much more important? Is the show we are putting on on Wall Street so much more important? Is the Savior-of-the-World image that we seem to feel we've needed for so long, to show all of the rest of the world, more important?
What is real, and what is a grand hallucination?
Shall we worship our paranoia, or shall we hope and create based upon that hope?
Einstein also said, "The release of atom power has changed everything EXCEPT OUR WAY OF THINKING...the solution to this problem LIES IN THE HEART OF MANKIND. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker".
So, where will our hearts lead us when we vote? That is important to think about. We now have the capacity to destroy our entire planet with a few dropped bombs...so what is the real meaning, NOW, of war? Of military power?
Again, from Einstein, "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
And to understand, you must have an open heart.
I graduated from nursing school and became a nurse in 1974. Yes, that long ago. So, I have seen much change take place in my lifetime alone...MUCH change.
My mother used to tell me stories about life during the Great Depression. She told me about how women went to work in the factories to help support their families. She told me about how, sometimes, female employees were asked for sexual favors by their male managers, or threatened with the loss of the job that was putting food on the table. There were no sexual harrassment laws, then.
She told me stories about how, down south, where she was from, the teachers sometimes sat there and did their nails and did not teach the poor children how to read and write. There was not much public oversight of schooling, back then.
But we have those things now, because we opened our hearts...and decided to make change for the better a priority. We let go of old ways that did not serve us. We did it because we cared about the women and we did it because we cared about the children. And Social Security and Veterans programs were created, because we cared about the elderly and about those who fought for our freedom and were injured, disabled, or killed.
When I first began working in nursing, things were so very different than they are now. VERY different...I cannot even describe it all to you in words.
Hospitals were run by doctors and nurses. There were no consulting firms or CEO's with MBA degrees. Nursing managers and supervisors wore a uniform along with the nurses, and they came out and worked right by our side on the floors, leading us in that very challenging job, the care of the sick. Doctors made rounds with us, and wrote the orders that we so faithfully followed. Yes, we were allowed to disagree...we could question them...but we did it with respect and with care. We spoke to one another as professionals...with the care of the patient in mind.
Now, hospitals are run by businessmen. Those business people have usually never cared for a sick person in their lives, yet they make hugely important decisions about the types of equipment that are ordered, the staffing, the way money is spent on construction (whether it will be the lobby that's remodeled, or the nursing station and med area, because we can't afford BOTH...and usually it is the lobby, since the public can see it, and since now hospitals are competitive), and they do all this under the heavy thumb of insurance companies who pay for the services that the patients receive.
So now, patients are often discharged way before they are ready to go home. Some are discharged to the streets, if they HAVE no home. Ancillary and support staff are cut to the bone in hospitals, and the patients that nurses care for are more acutely ill, and we must care for them with less staff. I have seen the days of the hospital "restructuring" and have experienced first-hand the obscenities of corporate health care...at one time, my hospital was using mandatory overtime for staffing. They'd wait until some exhausted nurse had completed an eight hour shift, often without breaks, and tell her at 11 PM..."Guess what...somebody called in, you have to stay another shift". If she was a single mom and had no babysitter, the choice was, stay, or get fired.
And to help keep staff in line, they also fortified the attendance rules. One nurse, whose daughter was shot in a drive-by shooting, called in to work that day so she could be with her daughter who was in ICU.
She got a pink slip and a corrective action because she went over the two times that you are allowed to call in sick in a six month period.
Working conditions are still like this in many states of this great country. There is NO regulation by law of mandatory overtime. We won that regulation in a Union contract, by going on strike.
Many employment situations are like this...they have gone from bad to worse, due to the greed of huge corporations like the HMO's that took over health care a couple of decades or so ago. And it is the hard-working middle-class that is slowly disappearing as a result.
I have experienced the effects of the type of thinking that the greedy corporate leaders have used on us all, first-hand, and I have felt the harm that it does all around me.
I have experienced their closed-mindedness and their hostilities. I have seen their unwillingness to give up what we let them take from us, out of ignorance...I have seen their greed.
I have seen the way they tried to manipulate us and belittle us and the scars are still there on my soul.
These people do not deserve any breaks, and they are not as important as they think they are. They are not important to US....the ones who are not heard...the ones with great ideas that go ignored.
And it is time for us to let them go, because they do not serve us.
Those who run the enormous corporations and have no social conscience need to be stopped because they do not care at all about either your interests, or mine. I have seen too much of this to believe otherwise.
The cycle has gone too far in their favor, and now, for the sake of our own survival, it must be reversed.
The "me" decades are over. Now, it needs to be about "us".
Another quote from Einstein:
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction."
Our corporate/military/industrial complex is big, complex, AND violent.
Obama has the genius and courage to move in the opposite direction, which is exactly where we need to go if we wish to survive.
As far as the garbage that circulates around about Obama and his "Muslim terrorist" background (sic)?
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." You guessed it, Albert Einstein.
And as for what Obama may have said when he was younger?
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new". Yep, it's from Al.
And finally, I will put here the Einstein quote that I think summarizes best of all my reasons for supporting the candidate, Barack Obama:
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest...a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
So, I must ask you all...
Do we still need the antics and capriciousness of Wall Street and its jesters?
Do we still need poverty and division?
Do we need to pour so many of our resources into a never-ending war?
Do we need to continue to support the seemingly infinite hunger of the corporate aristocracy?
What is more important, competition, or cooperation?
Do we matter enough to decide to survive?
I think we do.
And in my heart, I think that Barack Obama does, too, and that is why I voted for him to be the next President of the United States.
God Bless You All, and God Bless America! |
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