Redman

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
NEEDY FAMILIES GET HELP FROM RITE-AID, HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES Representatives from Rite-Aid Corporation and social service agency representatives in Detroit held a press conference Tuesday announcing a resource program targeting low-income families in the city of Detroit. The event was held at Matrix Human Services Mt. Zion Service Center on Detroit's east side. Two women who are clients of the Detroit Healthy Start program were on hand for the conference. They and other client families enrolled in the program will be receiving infant-care supplies and other child-health resources, as donated by the Rite Aid Corporation. Among the items donated by Rite Aid included over 100 "gift" bags (including diapers, baby shampoo, and other health and hygiene items) as well as several baby cribs. Members of the Detroit Healthy Start program and the nonprofit Institute for Population Health were on hand for the event. Comments were made by representatives of all the principal ...
Read more
EMERGENCY ROOM THEATER A 'final' vote on American health care reform may not come by the end of the year. A recent Associated Press article discusses this- http://tinyurl.com/yc6zp4a Apropos of nothing, yours endearingly has an anecdote to share: So i have this infrequently recurring condition where a knee and/or foot will swell up, get painful & stiff.. usually it's only moderately annoying, but this time it's laid me out and I had been more or less bedridden for a few days before grudgingly heading out to an emergency room.. ..after check-in, I’m laid out on the gurney, with a hospital gown on. My roughly 6'5" height leaves my exposed feet clearly hanging over the edge (which adds a slight amount of pressure to my already ailing left foot), and it’s chilly; so I’m frequently shifting my legs to get comfortable, and it doesn’t work.. I've got my own 'space' here but it's crowded in the service area, and people are being attended to in hallw...
Read more

Kirk Out: MAGAmerica Eats Its Young

James Baldwin, 1961:  To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time — and in one's work. And part of the rage is this: It isn't only what is happening to you. But it's what's happening all around you and all of the time in the face of the most extraordinary and criminal indifference, indifference of most white people in this country, and their ignorance. “Just throw your guns in the air, and buck-buck like you just don’t care!” Onyx , “Throw Ya Gunz”, 1993 Political activist and conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.   Some 40 miles to the southeast of Salt Lake City, the campus was hosting a Turning Point USA conference and rally.   Reportedly, Kirk, 31, had just finished suggesting that transgender individuals were largely responsible for most American mass shootings in the past 10 years, and following up an audience ...
Read more