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Saturday, April 1st, 2006
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4:39 pm - Political movings
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Things seem to be moving in A2. Wednesday and Thursday of this week there have been a few people handing out impeachbush.org flyers and impeach Bush yard signs. I was glad they were doing there best to spread hope around. I'm glad someone is doing something. I still don't have hope enough to join them.
Then on Friday there was a small group with civil liberty signs and impeach bush signs outside the post office. I don't know if this is growing or just a week long sqrimish. It would be cool if things got moving.
anyway.
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4:36 pm - breakfast
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Today I had a great breakfast with Lisa and Juli. We went to the Uptown Coney Island. The fellowship was great. Then we checked out the beads. What a great saturday.
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| Monday, January 2nd, 2006
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3:46 pm - year-end-review of books read
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Books read in 2005
1. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel [very good] {1980}*12/23/04-1/7/05
2. The Inextinguishable Symphony by Martin Goldsmith [great] {2000}*1/8/05-1/12/05*
3. The Storm of the Century by Stephen King {1999}*1/12/05-1/15/05*
4. Invisible Acts of Power, Personal choices that Create Miracles by Caroline Myss {2004} *1/15/06-2/5/05*
5. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
6. The Misfits by James Howe [the best] {2001} *3/6/05-3/9/05*
7. The Secret Weakness of Dragons and other tales a Fairy whispered in my ear by Brad Grochowski [Baltimore writer] {2004}*3/19/05-3/19/05*
8. Flowers to the Rescue, The Healing Vision of Dr. Edward Bach by Gregory Vlamis {1986}*march 05* (Sarah’s Book)
9. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge {1946}* 4/22/05-6/5/05*
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling [5]{2000}
11. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling [4]{1999}
12. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling [4]{1998}
13. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling [4] {1997}
14. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells {1898}*6/19/05-6/23/05*
15. Lapland Legends by Leonne de Cambrey (John’s book)
16. The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (John’s book)
17. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [3] by J. K. Rowling {2003}
18. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince [1] by J. K. Rowling {2005}*7/16/057/18/05, 7/19/05-7/27/05*
19. Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them & Quidditch through the Ages by J. K. Rowling {2001}*8/5/05-8/7/05*
20. A Crown of Swords, The Wheel of Time, Book 7 by Robert Jordan {1996} *7/29/05-8/7/05*
21. Flower Essences: Reordering our Understanding and Approach to Illness and Health by Machaelle Small Wright {1988}[EXCELLENT]*8/8/05-8/20/05*
22. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare {1958}*8/14/05-8/20/05 ~Newberry book~
23. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White {1952}*8/22/05-8/23/05* ~Newberry mention~
24. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede {1990}*8/24/05-8/25/05*
25. Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede {1991}*8/26/05-8/29/05*
26. The Secret Lives of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd [GREAT] {2002}*8/23/05-8/29/05*
27. Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede {1993} *8/30/05- 9/2/05*
28. Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede {1995}*9/03/05-9/4/05*
29. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien [Great] {1971}*9/4/05-9/8/05* ~Newberry~
30. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin {1968}*9/8/05-9/11/05*
31. Wise Woman Herbal: Healing Wise by Susun S. Weed{1989}[Good recipes, informative]*8/20/05-9/14/05*
32. Merrick by Anne Rice{2000}*9/6/05-9/15/05*
33. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin{1970}*9/15/05-9/21/05*
34. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams{1979}*9/18/05-9/26/05*
35. An Open Life by Joseph Campbell in conversation with Michael Toms {1989}*9/18/05-9/30/05*[very good, need more]
36. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin {1972}*9/22/05-10/6/05*
37. Energy Medicine by Donna Eden{1998}[2]*9/18/05-10/8/05*[read this yearly]
38. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams{1980}*9/27/05-10/9/05
39. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett{1905}*10/8/05-10/11/05*
40. One Day at Horrorland by R. L. Stine{1994}*10/12/05-10/14/05*
41. The Tibetan Book of the Dead Translated by W. Y. Evens-Wentz{1927}from 14th century texts.*3/28/04-10/22/05*
42. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams {1982}*10/9/05-10/24/05*
43. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander{1964}*10/16/05-10/31/05(Halloween)*
44. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander {1965}*10/31/05-Halloween*(Prydain Chronicles)(good books)
45. Touch for Health: A practical guide to natural health with acupressure touch and massage by John Thie{1973}*10/23/05-11/4/05*
46. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugnides {2002} *11/4/05-11/14/05*
47. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander {1966} *11/6/05-11/23/05*
48. The Promise of Energy Psychology: Revolutionary tools for dramatic personal change by David Feinstein and Donna Eden {2005} *11/4/05-11/27/05*
49. The Deeper Wound: Recovering the Soul for Fear and Suffering by Deepak Chopra {2001}* 7/13/04-12/03/05*
50. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander {1967} *11/29/05-12/13/05* [best so far]
51. A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis {1961} *12/11/05-12/14/05*
52. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley {1982} *11/15/05-12/24/05*
53. the High King by Lloyd Alexander {1968} *12/14/05-12/26/05*
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current mood:  accomplished
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| Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
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7:57 pm - Garden
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Wow, the yard is looking really good. The squash and pumpkins are amazing right now. Greens beans look good. The eggplant had to be replanted, but looks good.
I think this year we will have real Okra, how fun. The corn is coming on. The peppers had to be replanted, but they look great now, and the tomatos look excellent. Made a salad of lecture from the garden. It was so good. I will be making many homegrown salads now. Yeah earth.
Fairys have been spotted in the yard and they must be very happy, seeing how well they are helping things to grow. I wish I could see them too.
Also, a neighbor and Terri from work have given us hostas and they have filled our yard now. They are so beautiful and look great. It's exciting.
Growth, yeah!
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| Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
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10:49 am - Huge Volcano, and i'm not talking about Math Refuse
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Last night we were watching the travel channel and it was showing a
trip on the orient express in the southwest to yellowstone, the grand
titons, Bryce Park, Zion Park, and the Grand canyon and ended in
Alberqueqe. 8 days and it looked like a lot of fun. The coolest
thing was they just discovered a few years ago one of the largest
volcanic craters on earth is itself Yellowstone park. The crater is
35 miles by 45 miles. So big no one could ever put it together until
satelite pictures became available. They say it would have at the
very least 2,000 times more blast than MT. St. Helens. So the whole
park is just vents from a volcanic crater and that does make sense,
but the size of it just is incomprehensible. I guess that is what
they mean by super erruption volcano's. something that size probably
could cover the world in enough black soot to block out the sun.
Crazy.
Math Refuse came out. That's crazy too.
OK, for, like, 12 weeks now the movies have been whining and
complaining about box office being so down from last year and they try
and figure out what's wrong and why aren't people going. I wish
someone would listen. IT's really pretty simple. They have become
too expensive and priced themselves out of a market. Most people can
afford to go to maybe 4 movies a year, so you pick and chose. John
and I have been wanting to see the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy,
but we haven't had a weekend open enough to go to a Matinee. Neither
of us are going to pay 8.50 per ticket to see that. The economy is
sluggish and movies way outstripped inflation through the 90's. I can
remember paying 3$ for a friday night show in 6th grade.
The second, and even worse evil, is that they have started showing
commericals before the trailer. That's what sucks about tv and what
is so refreshing about the movies. Now they have invaded our space.
I can wait for video of most things and skip any and all commericals
they might try and put on there. To me, commericals are even worse
than the greedy price. When you can buy a movie for 10$ and you can
watch it that night, who wants to pay 30$ plus more for refreshments.
It's not that hard to figure out.
Same thing can be said about CD's. They kept saying how the price
would come down and it never did. You can buy the cheap movies for
6$, so surely you should be able to buy the old cd's for somewhere
close. I would probably buy a cd a week if it was in the 5$ range,
but it's too expensive to pay 15$ for one too often. That's a special
occasion. I say stop spending money on commericals for movies and cd,
forget ads and let word of mouth lead and your talk shows and save
money that way and pass it on to the customer.
current mood:  blank
current music: me own head
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| Saturday, May 14th, 2005
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11:48 am - #5 for shits and giggles
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Side A
1. Eric Clapton- Change the World
2. Presidents of the United States of America- Peaches
3. Patti Page- I don’t care if the Sun Don’t Shine
4. Dick Siegel- My Sweet America
5. Britney Spears- The Beat Goes on
6. Blur- Song 2
7. Camper van Beethovan- Take the Skinheads Bowling
8. Shakira- Ciega, Sordomuda
9. Dolly Parton- Shine
10. Hootie and the Blowfish- Hold my Hand
11. Loreena McKennitt- Mummer’s Dance
12. Dogs Eye View- Everything Falls
13. Glider- Thomas Crown Affair
Side B
14. Nina Simone- Sinnerman
15. Chris Buhalis- Joe McCarhty Blue’s
16. Alicia Keys- Butterflyz
17. Disclaimer- God Said “Plastics”
18. White Stripes- Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
19. Rev. Horton Heat- Big Red Rocket of Love
20. Pink- Get the Party Started
21. Johnny Lang- Lie to Me
22. Sam Philips- Gimme Some Truth
23. David Bowie- Cactus
24. Wally Brill- The Covenant
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11:28 am - the tapes
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J was the mixed tape king from his college days to the year 2000.(some 20 years) He made all these really cool themed tapes over the years with everything you can think of. He used a lot of everything. My favorite is Bridges, Frogs, Roads, and Toads. He used the Wind in the Willows lyrics to help tell the story. That's the first time I heard the Beatles 'Why don't we do it in the Road'. He has the best mixes I have ever heard I think.
He stopped making them in 2000 as I said and that just irkes me. No more new music. So I decided to try and put together some tapes with lots of music new to him or stuff he hasn't used to try and start up another round of tapes for him. He doesn't think there's any good music left, but I have a lot of it on these new tapes he likes.
I have very eclectic tastes in music and I like a lot of everything. So I am taking all kinds of fun songs I like alot and trying to intersperse those with things I know J hasn't used or are new to him. He loved Eno and he really liked the Sigur Ros song I used. He has a ton of Ani Difranco on his tapes, so I haven't been using many of her and I don't have her new album Evolve, so I can't use new material.
Some things I don't have so I can't use. The Black Eyed Peas 'Let's get it STarted' or Electric Six 'Gay Bar' or any Metallica or any of those things like that that I have heard yet don't own, so I can't pass them along. Ryan Adams, The guy who did 1972, Josh something I think.
Of course I can't help but use things I really love like Madonna and Tori and Rufus. J doesn't like Rufus' voice, but thinks he's an expert song writer, but tough shit, I love Rufus. He doesn't like show tunes at all, so I have stayed away from musicals even though I love them. I have only sprinkled Disco in some of them and I love that.
J does like Classical and says he doesn't know much about it and would like to know more, so I have tried to do more classical, but they can be long songs and take up a lot of time, so I have been sparing with the classical. I have a huge collection of Classical. I was a flute major and it was my first love. Anyway. 10 is it for this series and I don't think I have inspired him to do more. He is just letting me make the tapes. Oh well. You can't win them all.
# 5 is his favorite because I put a touch of political string through there. He likes that. He did this really awesome Iran Contra tape where he recorded all the proceedings of the trials and then put music under and around what was said and discussed. It's truely awesome. He must have spent 500 hours or more on just that one 90 minute tape. He had friends helping him tape around the clock and he still has those tapes and there are dozens of them. He went through them all and combed out the stuff he wanted and mixed them and wow, it's so awesome. I will never be that into it. He used all kinds of anti-war songs between them. You just have to hear it, but it's brilliant.
well, out.
current mood:  contemplative
current music: Latif Bolat
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11:23 am - # 9
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Side A
1. Thompson Twins- The Gap
2. Saint-Sa\”ens- Bacchanale
3. Beck- Girl
4. Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun
5. Ladytron- Abercrombie
6. Adrian Belew- The Lone Rhinoceros
7. Melissa Etheridge- I want to Come Over
8. Bolling, Suite No. 2, Jazz Flute---Jazzy
9. Shania Twain- No One Needs to Know
10. Ani Difranco- Wishin’ and Hopin’
11. Shel Silverstein- Hungry Mungry
Side B
12. Coldplay- Clocks
13. They Might Be Giants- Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
14. Nirvana- All Apologies
15. Saint-Sa\”ens- The Swan
16. Yeah Yeah Yeah- Tick
17. Good Charlotte- Riot Girl
18. Sheryl Crow- Everyday is a Winding Road
19. Hot Hot Heat- No, Not Now
20. Philip Glass- Powaqqatsi, Athem
21. Ute Lemper- Bilbao Song
22. Bette Midler- Keep on Rockin’
23. Yo Yo Ma/Bobby McFerrin- Flight of the Bumblebee
24. U2- One
25. Latif Bolat- Medley in Kurdili Hicazkar
current mood:  mellow
current music: Latif Balat
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| Friday, May 13th, 2005
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5:50 pm - # 8
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Side A
1. Alanis Morissette- Univited
2. Holst- Jupiter, bringer of Jollity
3. Tori Amos- Hey, Jupiter
4. U2- With or Without You
5. Madonna- Deeper and Deeper
6. Tom O’Connor- Nite Ridin’ on da River(ASU)
7. Joan Osborne- St. Theresa
8. Indigo Girls- Fugitive
9. R. E. M.- Shiny Happy People
Side B
1. The Pogues- Greenland Whale Fisheries
2. Blondie- One way or Another
3. Collective Soul- Shine
4. Cranberries- Zombie
5. David Bowie- the Mysteries(Budda of Suburbia)
6. Macy Gray- My Nutmeg Phantasy
7. John Adams, Nixon in China, News has a Kind of Mystery
8. Fiona Apple- Sleep to Dream
9. Janis Joplin- Piece of my Heart
10. Joni Mitchell- Twisted
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| Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
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10:38 am - Weekend
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5/9/05
The weekend was good and disappointing. Missed a party, went for walks and get finances done. Good.
The Sw. cousins came home to surprise their mother this weekend and
they meet me for dinner yesterday and that was great to see them.
Today, J woke up with an ear infection.
SCCRRRREEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!! He made an
appointment and went to the doctor, they saw him in 45 minutes, wow.
He called. Before he went he had a 101 degree temp. The doctor gave
him stronger antibiotics because he was on antibiotics already for a
UTI(urinary tract infect.). Bad, very bad news. The doctor told him
to make the soonest possible appt. at St. Joes or anywhere he could
for surgery. The dr. had never seen a hole so big in someones ear
drum. He said it was so serious that it looked to be breathing, the
hole. He has the chance of infections getting into his brain and
other things. He said it was very serious.
WEll, J called in again, he missed 2 half days last week, but made
them up and missed 2 days the week before and I can't keep track
before that. He can't go back to work today until the temp comes
down, but he feeling horrible. So he is home. His friend who runs
the place, well not runs, but is high up, understands the problems
J has, but there's only so much he can do. J might loose his
job. His benefits are just about to kick in like this week. What is
he to do now? He doesn't want to be sick, he wants to work. He
doesn't want to go deaf and have infections and have kidney stones.
He's so downhearted now. He's fought so hard against all this and
work has been so good to him.
Plus, he's very stressed and concerned about keeping his job, getting
healthy and that causes urges to smoke, but smoking is the worst thing
you can do for an ear infection they say. I tried to help emphasize
what the dr. said about absolutly no smoking and I think I only helped
compound his problem. He knows that and he's stressed to the max and
now he has to try and go cold turkey. I know he can't do it. Smoking
sucks, or the addiction it causes. I am so mad. I've said it once
and here it comes again. You have to have a job to have health
insurance, but if your not healthy, you can't keep a job and how do
you afford to get healthy without insureance. There is a huge problem
in the country with health care. I feel helpless, as does J, and
how can you ask a company to be any more patient with John than they
have been? How can they not understand that J is not doing this
for fun and just to get a day off? How can they fire him for something
out of his control? The kidney stones are real, I took the temp and
the infection is real. He needs serious help, but can't afford it. I
am very irratated.
The other side of the story is that in the world of energy healing,
your body goes through symptoms as it gets sick. You might get
headaches, then an infection, then very sick, then cancer. Well, to
heal, oh it's complecated. When something goes wrong, it goes into
the body, from outer layers to inner and deeper. To heal, it has to
come back out, so you go back through all the things you went through
to get there. So this means J is healing. He had ear infections,
then UTI's, then Kidney stones. He's been having UTI's for some time
now and he's back to the ear infections. But the problem is he still
has to deal with all of it while he's going through it. Anyway.
Energy stuff is great, but I would like to have western medicine as a
conterpart as I think the 2 worked best together. They are like
yin/yang. I think both are needed. Anyway. So he has the energy
part, but now he needs western meds and surgery. He also has a
chipped tooth for 5 years now that he needs to fix. anyway. I must
stop.
current mood:  aggravated
current music: Rufus, want one
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| Saturday, May 7th, 2005
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6:44 pm - Mixed #7
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Side A
1. Joseph Garland- In the Mood
2. A. C. Newman- Miracle Drug
3. Meatloaf- Bat Out of Hell
4. Big Mama Thornton- Hound Dog
5. Bj\”ork- Bachelorette
6. Cabaret Hoover- Benolt Charest
7. Danny Elfman- The Simpsons
8. Ben E. King- Stand By Me
9. Beck- Missing
10. Alanis Morissette- Eight Easy Steps
11. Ricky Martin- The Cup of Life
12. Bright Eyes- Old Soul Song
Side B
13. Hot Hot Heat- Naked in the City Again
14. Ravi Shankar- M\’aru-Bih\’ag
15. Ani Difranco- Out of Range
16. Deep Forest- India
17. Grace Jones- Walking in the Rain
18. David Bowie- Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud
19. Barber- Adagio for Strings
20. Rufus Wainwright- Gay Messiah
21. White Stripes- Seven Nation Army
22. Air- Alpha Beta Gaga
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1:27 pm - another mixed tape for John # 6
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Side a(it's a tape)
David Bowie- Andy Warhol
David Bowie- Pablo Picasso
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Lookin' Out my Back Door
Shel Silverstein- Jimmy Jet & his TV Set
Brian Eno- St. Elmo's Fire
Wallflowers- The Difference
Berlin- Take my Breath Away
Hildegard von Bingen- Ave Generosa
Pink Floyd- Us & Them
Iggy Pop- Lust for Life
Vince Guaraldi- Linus & Lucy
Side B
Of Montreal - Lysergic Bliss
Michael Hoppe- Lillies on the Lake(alto flute)
Sigur R\'os- Staralfur
John Hartford- Indian War Whoop
Jubilant Sykes- Deep River
Stevie Wonder- Superstitious
Andrea Maxand- Cassie's Song
Macy Gray- Sexual Revolution
Beck- Qu\'e Onda Guero
Garbage- Bleed like Me
Jane's Addiction- Jane Says
Simon & Garfunkel- Cecilia
current mood:  ditzy
current music: simon and garfunkel
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| Thursday, May 5th, 2005
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1:24 pm - Carter saw the future and no one listened
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Published on Tuesday, May 3, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
Carter Tried To Stop Bush's Energy Disasters - 28 Years Ago
by Thom Hartmann
In his recent news conference, George Bush Jr. suggested that our nation's "problem" with high gasoline prices was caused by the lack of a national energy policy, and tried to blame it all on Bill Clinton. First, Junior said, "This is a problem that's been a long time in coming. We haven't had an energy policy in this country."
This was followed by, "That's exactly what I've been saying to the American people -- 10 years ago if we'd had an energy strategy, we would be able to diversify away from foreign dependence. And -- but we haven't done that. And now we find ourselves in the fix we're in." As is so often the case, Bush was lying.
Consider President Jimmy Carter's April 18, 1977 speech. Since it was given nearly three decades ago, when many of the reporters in Bush's White House were children, it's understandable that they don't remember it. But it's inexcusable that Bush and the mainstream media (which, after all, has the ability to do research) would completely ignore it. It was the speech that established the strategic petroleum reserve, birthed the modern solar power industry, led to the insulation of millions of American homes, and established America's first national energy policy. "With the exception of preventing war," said Jimmy Carter, a man of peace, "this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes."
He added: "It is a problem we will not solve in the next few years, and it is likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. "We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren.
"We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now, we can control our future instead of letting the future control us." Carter bluntly pointed out that: "The most important thing about these proposals is that the alternative may be a national catastrophe. Further delay can affect our strength and our power as a nation." He called the new energy policy he was proposing, "[T]he 'moral equivalent of war' -- except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not destroy."
When Carter had become president three months earlier, the nation was still recovering from the "oil shock" of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, and scientists were realizing our nation was just then hitting the point of domestic peak oil production predicted more than a decade earlier by scientist M. King Hubbert. (The rest of the world is hitting the Hubbert Peak right now.) As Carter noted in his speech, "The oil and natural gas we rely on for 75 percent of our energy are running out. In spite of increased effort, domestic production has been dropping steadily at about six percent a year. Imports have doubled in the last five years. Our nation's independence of economic and political action is becoming increasingly constrained." Hubbert had predicted that the peak of oil production for the USA would come in the 1970s, and it did, hitting us with a shock.
"The world has not prepared for the future," said Jimmy Carter. "During the 1950s, people used twice as much oil as during the 1940s. During the 1960s, we used twice as much as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history." Hubbert said we must begin to conserve. Carter agreed.
"Ours is the most wasteful nation on earth," he said, a point that is still true. "We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan and Sweden." Carter directly challenged the fossil fuel and automobile industries. "One choice," he said, "is to continue doing what we have been doing before. We can drift along for a few more years. "Our consumption of oil would keep going up every year. Our cars would continue to be too large and inefficient. Three-quarters of them would continue to carry only one person -- the driver -- while our public transportation system continues to decline. We can delay insulating our houses, and they will continue to lose about 50 percent of their heat in waste. "We can continue using scarce oil and natural gas to generate electricity, and continue wasting two-thirds of their fuel value in the process."
But that would be unpatriotic, anti-American, and essentially wrong. Who but a traitor sold out to special interests, or an idiot, would countenance such insanity?
The year 1977 was a turning point for America. If we didn't make clear and rapid progress, we would face painful times ahead. The Saudis would have their fingers around our necks. We'd face war in the Middle East to secure future oil supplies. "Now we have a choice," Carter said. "But if we wait, we will live in fear of embargoes. We could endanger our freedom as a sovereign nation to act in foreign affairs."
Failure to act in the 1970s and 1980s would inevitably lead to a time when the only way to maintain our lifestyle would be to rape our planet and seize control of oil-rich nations in the Middle East. If we didn't begin to develop alternatives like solar power, and dramatically reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, then, Carter said, even our cherished personal freedoms would be at risk. If we continued to simply follow past policies that enriched the oil industry and the Saudis, instead of becoming energy independent, Carter said, "We will feel mounting pressure to plunder the environment."
If we failed to develop alternative sources of renewable energy and conserve what we have, the alternative could be nasty. As Carter pointed out: "We will have a crash program to build more nuclear plants, strip-mine and burn more coal, and drill more offshore wells than we will need if we begin to conserve now. Inflation will soar, production will go down, people will lose their jobs. Intense competition will build up among nations and among the different regions within our own country. "If we fail to act soon, we will face an economic, social and political crisis that will threaten our free institutions."
Carter's speech drew a strong reaction from the Saudis and the oil industry. Think tanks soon emerged - many whose names are today familiar - to suggest there was really no energy problem, and they led the charge to establish a permanent right-wing media in the US. Within two years, Saudi citizen and oil baron Salem bin Laden's sole US representative, James Bath, would funnel cash into the failing business of the son of the CIA's former director, political up-and-comer George H. W. Bush. With that money from the representative of Osama Bin Laden's half-brother, George Bush Jr. was able to keep afloat his Arbusto ("shrub" in Spanish) Oil Company. And he would be in the pocket of the bin Laden and Saudi interests for the rest of his life. But Carter was incorruptible.
"We can be sure that all the special interest groups in the country will attack the part of this plan that affects them directly," he said. "They will say that sacrifice is fine, as long as other people do it, but that their sacrifice is unreasonable, or unfair, or harmful to the country. If they succeed, then the burden on the ordinary citizen, who is not organized into an interest group, would be crushing." But that would be wrong. It would be un-American. It would lead to future oil shocks, and the probable death of American soldiers in Middle Eastern oil wars. Instead of caving in to the Saudis and the oil industry, Carter said: "There should be only one test for this program: whether it will help our country."
Two years later, as the bin Laden family's sole US representative was bailing out George Bush Junior's failing oil business, Jimmy Carter gave another speech on energy, further refining his national energy policy. He had already started the national strategic petroleum reserve, birthed the gasohol and solar power industries, and helped insulate millions of homes and offices. But he wanted to go a step further. "I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States," Carter said on July 15, 1979. "Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 -- never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s..." In addition, we needed to immediately begin to develop a long-range strategy to move beyond fossil fuel.
Therefore, Carter said, "I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this nation's first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000." But then came the Iran/Contra October Surprise, when the Reagan/Bush campaign allegedly promised the oil-rich mullahs of Iran that they'd sell them missiles and other weapons if only they'd keep our hostages until after the 1980 Carter/Reagan presidential election campaign was over. The result was that Carter, who had been leading in the polls over Reagan/Bush, steadily dropped in popularity as the hostage crisis dragged out, and lost the election. The hostages were released the very minute that Reagan put his hand on the Bible to take his oath of office. The hostages freed, the Reagan/Bush administration quickly began illegally delivering missiles to Iran.
And Ronald Reagan's first official acts of office included removing Jimmy Carter's solar panels from the roof of the White House, and reversing most of Carter's conservation and alternative energy policies.
Today, despite the best efforts of the Bushies, the bin Ladens, and the rest of the oil industry, Carter's few surviving initiatives have borne fruit.
It is now more economical to build power generating stations using wind than using coal, oil, gas, or nuclear. When amortized over the life of a typical mortgage, installing solar power in a house in most parts of the US is cheaper than drawing power from the grid. (Shell and British Petroleum are among the world's largest manufacturers of solar photovoltaic panels, which can now even be used as roofing shingles.) And hybrid cars that get 50-70 miles to the gallon are increasingly commonplace on our nation's highways. Instead of taking a strong stand to make America energy independent, Bush kisses a Saudi crown prince, then holds hands with him as they walk into Bush's hobby ranch in Texas. Our young men and women are daily dying in Iraq - a country with the world's second largest store of underground oil. And we live in fear that another 15 Saudis may hijack more planes to fly into our nation's capitol or into nuclear power plants.
Meanwhile, Bush brings us an energy bill that includes eight billion dollars in welfare payments to the oil business, just as the nation's oil companies report the highest profits in the entire history of the industry. Americans struggle to pay for gasoline, while the Bush administration refuses to increase fleet efficiency standards, stop the $100,000 tax break for buying Hummers, or maintain and build Amtrak. George Bush Jr. is arguably right that gas prices are spiking because we don't have an energy policy. But instead of blaming Clinton, he should be pointing to the Reagan/Bush administration, and to his own abysmal failures over the past four years.
Thom Hartmann's bestselling book on peak oil is titled "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, published by Random House/Three Rivers Press. His articles archive is at www.thomhartmann.com/commondreams.shtml.
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9:07 pm - yeah me
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I have accomplished something today and that feels good.
cooked dinner.
Cleaned the kitchen
Flooded clean laundry
Put it away
did some writing
Yeah and go me
current mood:  chipper
current music: Hildegard von bingen
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8:34 pm - my thoughts
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I find that piece from common dreams really hit home with me. I am constantly trying to figure out why some people are hellbent on making earthly life hell on earth. I have come to the understanding that these people don't realize life is what we make it and we can make life hell or we can make it pleasant and maybe even a little sweet, but it depends on our attitudes.
How can 2 groups who produce fear in the other get along. When they take power and want everyone to confrom I get scared shitless. When our side takes over and everyone lets everyone be who they are, they get scared shitless. How can there ever be comproise with that set-up. People seem very happy during the 90's when you could just be who you were, but that group of the other was scared. I can't figure out how to get them to be unafriad accept to take away all the asses telling the other people, like preachers, to be afraid. Connundrum.
America definately has this
"Start with the concept of exceptionality. Nazi ideology grew out of Germans’ belief that their country was uniquely privileged because it was uniquely valuable. This made them an exception to rules and norms. The average “Proud to Be an American” bumper-sticker-buyer believes the same thing. (I’m still waiting for some churchgoing patriot to notice that being born American is a gift of grace and to begin marketing “Humble to be an American” decals.")
God doesn't just bless our country, but he blesses the world because he cares for us all. God doesn't see boundaries, or skin types or languages or genders or any of that shit.
"A belief in your country’s exceptionality takes you way out beyond the warm self-appreciation of patriotism; in naming your heritage “exceptional,” you cut your ties to the family of nations and set yourself above the rules. Our belief in our own exceptionality erodes the walls that hold back human greed, fear of otherness, and violence. Exceptionality makes the unthinkable possible, even reasonable."
I love this last block of text. It's so true. WE are already on that road. Right now they are trying to make it ok to call gays names and that's ok, because they don't see it as an acceptable lifestyle. It's demonization of a certain group. Christian children are told it's ok to let them know you don't agree. It's the seeds of hate. They want and will probably get control of the courts so the courts will push their aggenda and then we gays will lose rights and they will go after group after group, instilling theirself in power.
It scares me.
"Before the Nazi rise to power, German society bloomed with cultural, artistic, and social openness, as did the United States in the last third of the twentieth century. The dominant culture enriched itself by cross-pollinating with other groups. Creativity, innovation, and freedom held sway in art, music, drama, and dance. In lifestyle choices, openness and experimentation were possible."
To me this is what makes life beautiful. Diversity is God's plan man. Look at how many species of birds their are. I believe it's 87,000 some. Why so many to do the same things. Why aren't we all the same. It seems that the intelligent design behind this whole universe loves diverstiy and the gay community give some of the brightest most rare colors out there. They just enrich our lives in ways we ordinary people can't totally see. To understand God, I think, is to be diverse and open and creative.
"In physics as in lifestyle and the arts, Germany and the United States both saw a great questioning of old values, limits, and presuppositions of all kinds—followed by an iron backswing of the pendulum rushing to shut down all the openness, answer all the questions, replace uncertainty with certainty, and relativism with absolutes. Does our anxiety in the face of uncertainty and relativity drive us to cook up fake certainties, like which language is better, who is going to Hell, who must live, and who should die? Did Germany, and will the United States, overcompensate for being uncertain like Napoleon did for being short?"
I think this is the very heart of the matter. Religion has always be a bin for the sheep heards. So many people are so freewheeling that they want someone to say with certainty, THIS IS HOW IT IS. The people who lead these bodies love the power, the money, and the greed, hell, even the sex that these powerful places give you. Check out the catholics history 500-1500. These old traditions are embedded in generations and people will fight to keep that from changing. The thing is, once your outside the norm and look in on it, you can't really go back.
It's the tea-cup theory as my uncle calls it. Turn a tea cup over. Inside is where fundamentalism lives. They use guilt, fear, and shame to create the thick sides of this tea cup. If your geeky smart or not societially normally good looking, if your gay, if your psyhic, or anything that the masses aren't, then this causes you to break through the teacup. ONce you do, there's no going back. Once on the outside, you can see what the teacup really is and how limited it is and why would you want to go back. The tea-cup theory
"The core resentment that energizes the swing toward right-wing “Christian” totalitarianism is the confusing, painful panic at seeing The Way and The Truth become one of many ways and many truths. As one pulpiteer expressed it, “having our culture become a subculture” is felt as a wound, an assault."
Yes, I think this is a core truth to what is happening today. They are insecure and to be a minority makes them even more insecure. They must be the majority. They can't let themselves not be the majority, even if they must force people to kneel in their pulpits. Blah.
"And what we notice are a lot of parallels between the Nazi rise to power 80 years ago and the “Christian” right-wing rise to power today. Do we keep our wide-eyed mystification—“How could they have done those things?”—or do we do what Germans failed to do, what we revile them for not doing: Do we recognize the road we’re on, wrestle the steering wheel away from the mad bus-driver, and stop the bus before we get to the last stop, the town of Ultimate Consequences, Pop. 11 Million?"
Sometimes I get so scared I can't do much. It has been terrible since november for me. Sometimes I think there is still time to do something yet. It's not over. What is healty fear and what is warranted? Freedom is freedom and control is not freedom. What can really be done about all this nonsense? Do you live your life in a bubble and hope for the best? Do you protest, which doesn't do that much good with these people, they just don't care? Do you move out of the country and let the mess happen? I don't know.
There is a black cloud hanging over this country. A cloud of fear and hatred. A cloud of join us or die. A very anti-american cloud. It really does make me see the picture of Sauran causing all the darkness before his great battle and Gandalf rides out with a staff and pierces the darkness with a beam of pure light. I love fantasy. Where is our Gandalf? I have come to believe that we, collectively, are Gandalf and we must shine together. How you do that I don't know? I live in a world of uncertainty and for the most part I'm ok with that.
The only thing I have come up with to do, and my brother has already told me this wouldn't work, is to go to these conservative churches and swallow their vile sermons, but participate in their small groups and challange everything they think in a respectful and caring way and see if I can affect people one to one. It's the only thing I can think to do.
That it's for now.
current mood: contemplative
current music: Hildgard von Bingen, Heavenly revelations
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5:23 pm - new
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5/3/05
Had a very good weekend. I walked Darcy around the river all 3 days.
It was like a 2 hour walk. I can't tell you how much better I feel.
I am going to have to keep that up. It was just so beautiful.
I relaxed friday, Deb had her party and bonfire on Saturday and that
was a huge todo. It was great, although a little cold, but the fire
was great as was the company. Sunday we worked in the garden most of
the day. We have it all tilled up and looking good. Now we need
seeds.
I did buy some plants at the farmers market and that was nice. Cold.
They should be very hardy plants to survive as much snow as they have.
One can only hope.
I also finished a afgan and started another one. woowho.
Yesterday John fixed the best spicy Lamb chops. They were divine,
seriously. He called them "oh my god Lamb".
current mood:  good
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5:18 pm - more old
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4/27/05
This weekend I watched 'The Village'. Loved it. I think it's one of
Night's better movies. I thought it was super. Then I had a free
rental{a lesson I learned. go to the video store during bad weather
and look for the movies out of stock and get a free coupon. Cool} for
'House of the Flying Daggers'. I loved this movie. It is just so
beautiful. I love the dancing, the colors for each scene and the
amazing, unreal fight scenes and I really don't like violence. It was
just artistic and beautiful. I love the Bamboo scenes and it makes me
want to go to china just to see the Bamboo fields and forrests.
Another life maybe.
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5:16 pm - old entry
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4/28/05
Last night John turned on this extremely great science show on water
and how multiple pollutants are really hurting our planet. It was
brilliant!, meant in the english sense of exclamation. Edward Norton
nararatored this shendig and it was very well done. All these
scientists were saying that animals are like the carnary in the mine
shaft. We all live on the same planet and we all are affected by
what's in the water. They did a great job. Did you know that in
Columbus Missouri, men's sperm counts are very low due to the run-off
of pesticides from farms into the water table. They were surprised by
how much lower it was than places like New York and LA and such. Also
pesticides from farms are causing male frogs to be hermaprodites and
are found with eggs in their testes. I forget the name of the
chemical, but it changes the frogs testosterone into estorgen in low
amounts. High amounts, the frogs body sees it as harmful and it's
immune system attacks it, but low levels get through it. Crazy huh.
Anyway.
Also had a dream last night. Weird that I remember it. I was with
John at a Hospital and I had received a lethal injection. It was like
voluntary, but for something I had done wrong and don't remember. So
I was sitting there dying and they were doing tests on me and JOhn was
talking with me and my face hurt and I looked in the mirror and my
face had swollen into this ugly square and I didn't like that and
decided I didn't want to die. I told John I wanted to get out of here
and he took me to some kind of college where I was supposed to have
been. I knew the characters in my dream, but not in real life. David
Bowie was performing at this party of people. He was hanging from a
closet by black cords bouncing upside down like on the cover of
Lodger, but dressed like Station to Station cover. He talk to me and
all these people were hooking up. They were like Sorry your dying but didn't really care and went on with their party and then the alarm
went off. I don't know if I died or not. WEird
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2:52 pm - from common dreams
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Published on Monday, May 2, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
Yesterday and Today: Nazis and the Righteous Right
by Donna Glee Williams
History is tapping us on the shoulder and pointing. The sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz followed so closely by the popification of an ex-member of the Hitler Youth combine to force our attention back to the Nazi catastrophe. We study World War II and the Holocaust and ask ourselves “How could it happen? How could civilized people let it come to this? How could they consent to let their flag become the registered trademark for collective evil and let their country walk into history with the blood of millions on its conscience?” We shake our heads and turn away from the questions because our historical gaze is dazzled by the enormity of what happened in the 1940’s. “Never again!” we say with tears in our eyes.
But if we truly want some calamity to happen Never Again, we won’t just study that calamity. We’ll study what went before. We’ll study its precursors. What allowed, invited, or caused it to happen? Who were catastrophe’s midwives? If we learn to recognize them, there is hope that we can turn them away when they again show up, smiley-faced, at our door. Before World War II and the Holocaust, there was Germany of the 1920’s and ‘30’s. That’s where we need to focus our cross-generational telescopes.
If we take a look at pre-WWII Germany, we notice it has some things in common with the United States now. Start with the concept of exceptionality. Nazi ideology grew out of Germans’ belief that their country was uniquely privileged because it was uniquely valuable. This made them an exception to rules and norms. The average “Proud to Be an American” bumper-sticker-buyer believes the same thing. (I’m still waiting for some churchgoing patriot to notice that being born American is a gift of grace and to begin marketing “Humble to be an American” decals.) A belief in your country’s exceptionality takes you way out beyond the warm self-appreciation of patriotism; in naming your heritage “exceptional,” you cut your ties to the family of nations and set yourself above the rules. Our belief in our own exceptionality erodes the walls that hold back human greed, fear of otherness, and violence. Exceptionality makes the unthinkable possible, even reasonable.
Before the Nazi rise to power, German society bloomed with cultural, artistic, and social openness, as did the United States in the last third of the twentieth century. The dominant culture enriched itself by cross-pollinating with other groups. Creativity, innovation, and freedom held sway in art, music, drama, and dance. In lifestyle choices, openness and experimentation were possible.
A part of this bubbling cultural ferment was caused by physics. We think of physics as an esoteric branch of science that is of interest only to the The Few, The Proud, The Geeks whose quirky neuroanatomy makes them able to emote in equations. But where physics goes, culture follows. The big metaphors in all areas are based on the physics of our time. And both Nazi Germany and the American Whatever-the-Hell-You-Call-What-We-Are-Becoming were preceded by advances in physics that announced reality to be much different from what we’d always assumed it to be. In the early part of the twentieth century, Einstein’s and Heisenberg’s physics of relativity and uncertainty—largely centered in German universities—proclaimed that some of our most fundamental understandings about the universe were Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. As quantum mechanics and the new cosmology developed in the later part of the twentieth century—largely centered in U.S. universities—their outrageous paradoxical observations once again taught the lesson that common sense isn’t always right. Things aren’t always—or ever—the way they seem.
In physics as in lifestyle and the arts, Germany and the United States both saw a great questioning of old values, limits, and presuppositions of all kinds—followed by an iron backswing of the pendulum rushing to shut down all the openness, answer all the questions, replace uncertainty with certainty, and relativism with absolutes. Does our anxiety in the face of uncertainty and relativity drive us to cook up fake certainties, like which language is better, who is going to Hell, who must live, and who should die? Did Germany, and will the United States, overcompensate for being uncertain like Napoleon did for being short?
Another family resemblance between Germany of the ‘20’s and ‘30’s and the Righteous Right of today is the feeling that somebody done us wrong. For Germany, the sense of being aggrieved was related to the famously vindictive Treaty of Versailles that settled the overt hostilities of World War I but left Germans with smoldering bitterness against what they saw as injustice and injury. The core resentment that energizes the swing toward right-wing “Christian” totalitarianism is the confusing, painful panic at seeing The Way and The Truth become one of many ways and many truths. As one pulpiteer expressed it, “having our culture become a subculture” is felt as a wound, an assault. On September 11th, the cultural assault on our inner landscape then manifested as a physical attack on our outer landscape, echoing the unsolved burning of the Reichstag building in 1933. Then, as now, terrorism coupled with an effective propaganda machine helped those in power to bring the country together while separating it from its civil rights. Once we feel ourselves to be under attack, are there any limits to what we will permit in the name of “self-defense?”
The backlash against openness and uncertainty, together with perceived national victimization, led Germany to begin to pick off voices of dissent in its own house. Some of these were political. Some were religious. German Christian churches were systematically nazified. The governing boards of seminaries were taken over seat by seat. Seminary faculties were pruned of opposition, guaranteeing that the pulpits of Germany would spout preaching that supported the Nazi agenda. The prophetic voice of the church was silenced. The systematic right-wing takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, board by board, professor by professor, pulpit by pulpit, is so eerily similar that it could be an echo of the same shout.
And then there were the Jews. For historical reasons, the Nazi party had, ready to hand, a tiny subgroup of people that they could call “evil” and have that name stick. Once the “evil” was identified, people projected onto the Jews every disowned trait they hated in themselves. Enormous energy was mobilized to oppress, exile, and destroy the theoretically contagious corruption of Jewishness. The righteousness of the cause was “proved” by the visceral disgust the oppressors felt towards the oppressed. Hatred kept the dominant group bonded, energized, focused, and easy to manipulate. Today, similar rhetoric is mobilizing hatred for another tiny minority, homosexuals, who are similarly represented as undermining the entire fabric of American life and values. In the same way, appeals to disgust as a moral arbiter “prove” the validity of the argument. Incidents of violence against gays remind us of the spotty street violence against Jews that came before the systematic, state-sponsored violence of the Holocaust.
They say that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat trite sayings. But when history lands a big one-two punch like “Happy Birthday, Auschwitz Survivors, Now Guess Who’s Pope?” the teacher gets our attention. And what we notice are a lot of parallels between the Nazi rise to power 80 years ago and the “Christian” right-wing rise to power today. Do we keep our wide-eyed mystification—“How could they have done those things?”—or do we do what Germans failed to do, what we revile them for not doing: Do we recognize the road we’re on, wrestle the steering wheel away from the mad bus-driver, and stop the bus before we get to the last stop, the town of Ultimate Consequences, Pop. 11 Million?
Donna Glee Williams is the Director of the Holocaust Education Program at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching and a free-lance writer. In 2005, NC Governor Mike Easley appointed her to the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust. She is also a registered nurse. She can be reached at williadg@nccat.or
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2:51 pm - Check it out girls
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New kind of Breast Cancer - DO NOT DELETE
Please forward to all of the women in your lives . Mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, friends, etc.
In November, a rare kind of breast cancer was found. A lady developed a rash on her breast, similar to that of young mothers who are nursing.
Because her mammogram had been clear, the doctor treated her with antibiotics for infections. After 2 rounds, it continued to get worse, so her doctor sent her for another mammogram. This time it showed a mass.
A biopsy found a fast growing malignancy. Chemo was started in order to shrink the growth; then a mastectomy was performed; then a full round of Chemo; then radiation. After about 9 months of intense treatment, she was given a clean bill of health.
She had one year of living each day to its fullest.! Then the cancer returned to the liver area. She took 4 treatments and decided that she wanted quality of life, not the after effects of Chemo. She had 5 great months and she planned each detail of the final days. After a few days of needing morphine, she died. She left this message to be delivered to women everywhere:
Women, PLEASE be alert to anything that is not normal, and be persistent in getting help as soon as possible.
Paget's Disease: This is a rare form of breast cancer, and is on the outside of the breast, on the nipple and aureole. It appeared as a rash, which later became a lesion with a crusty outer edge. I would not have ever suspected it to be breast cancer but it was. My nipple never seemed any different to me, but the rash bothered me, so I went to the doctor for that. Sometimes, it itched and was sore, but other than that it didn't bother me. It was just ugly and a nuisance, and could not be cleared up with all the creams prescribed by my doctor and dermatologist for the dermatitis on my eyes just prior to th is outbreak. They seemed a little concerned but did not warn me it could be cancerous.
Now, I suspect not many women out there know a lesion or rash on the nipple or aureole can be breast cancer. Mine started out as a single red pimple on the aureole. One of the biggest problems with Paget's disease of the nipple is that the symptoms appear to be harmless. It is frequently thought to be a skin inflammation or infection, leading to unfortunate de lays in detection and care.
What are the symptoms?
1. A persistent redness, oozing, and crusting of your nipple causing it to itch and burn. (As I stated, mine did not itch or burn much, and had no oozing I was aware of, but it did have a crust along the outer edge on one side.)
2. A sore on your nipple that will not heal. (Mine was on the aureole area with a whitish thick looking area in center of nipple).
3. Usually only one nipple is effected. How is it diagnosed? Your doctor will do a physical exam and should suggest having a mammogram of both breasts, done immediately. Even though the redness, oozing and crusting closely resemble dermatitis (inflammation of the skin), your doctor should suspect cancer if the sore is o nly on one breast. Your doctor should order a biopsy of your sore to confirm what i! s going on.
This message should be taken seriously and passed on to as many of your relatives and friends as possible; it could save someone's life.
My breast cancer has spread and metastasized to my bones after receiving mega doses of chemotherapy, 28 treatments of radiation and taking Tamaxofin. If this had been diagnosed as breast cancer in the beginning, perhaps it would not have spread...
TO ALL READERS:
This is sad as women are not aware of Paget's disease. If, by passing this around on the e-mail, we can make others aware of it and its potential danger, we are helping women everywhere.
Please, if you can, take a moment to forward this message to as many people as possible, especially to your family and friends. It only takes a moment, yet the results could save a life.
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