May 29 Your
Working People: I was going through my bookmarks and I found this Alberta website. It’s about
news and here’s a good article “No Coffee for the Disabled”:
The Alberta government is preparing to make some disastrous cuts to
the disabilities sector, to the tune of $42 million. Considering the wages in
the field, and the funding most folks receive, it’s a fortune. Many will be
left without supports. Depending on parent or guardian involvement, many will
either languish at home or end up spending most of their time on the streets.
(Minister
Frank Oberle’s) crass comments made in the media could only come from someone
who hasn’t worked a single day with the people whom he feels qualified enough
to pass judgment on. The Calgary Herald quoted Oberle saying: “Loading
people on the bus and taking them to Tim Hortons at 2 p.m. in the afternoon is not community inclusion.” That’s an
insulting, reductionist description of what I do for a living. It’s also
prejudiced. Apparently it’s okay to go out for a cup of coffee with a friend,
as long as you’re not disabled.
What Oberle fails to realize is that for many developmentally disabled people, something as simple as a trip to a coffee shop with a friend takes a lot of planning and energy. His comments further fuel the prejudice many have towards both disabled people and the individuals, like myself, who support them. It’s shameful.
What Oberle fails to realize is that for many developmentally disabled people, something as simple as a trip to a coffee shop with a friend takes a lot of planning and energy. His comments further fuel the prejudice many have towards both disabled people and the individuals, like myself, who support them. It’s shameful.
Jun. 1 My
opinion: By reading the above article, it does make me appreciate that I
can move easily around town.
A
House in the Sky: I cut out this book
review “A tale of torture, transformation” by Catherine Ford on Sept. 20, 2013. She reviews the
book A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett. Here are some excerpts:
Buy and
devour this book for an unflinching look at the transformation of a young girl
into a determined woman; from cocktail waitress to the driving force behind a
non-profit foundation.
This
first-person retelling of Amanda Lindhout's kidnapping (with her ex-boyfriend)
in Somalia is a harrowing account of how a young and idealistic woman
from a hardscrabble life in Red Deer and Sylvan Lake finds herself redemption and forgiveness. She was, over
the course of 460 days, turned into a different person.
The first
question is why on earth anyone would choose to go to Somalia in the middle of a war. She writes: "I'd like to say
that I hesitated before heading into Somalia, but I didn't. If anything, my experiences had taught me
that while terror and strife hogged the international headlines, there was
always - really, truly always - something more hopeful and humane running
alongside it."
She was
proved wrong, but it's doubtful she would look at it in that fashion today.
Indeed, she was raped repeatedly, beaten, chained and tortured. She was treated
as an object to be used and discarded, kept in an airless, windowless room,
even as the man who was kidnapped with her was treated far more humanely for
the simple reason he was male.
She not
only survives, but becomes stronger.
Rather
than giving up, she visits her "house in the sky ... inside the shelter of
my mind." She imagines life after, makes herself promises that eventually
she would "do something that mattered."
And she
does - establishing the Global Enrichment Foundation supporting development,
aid and education initiatives in Somalia and Kenya.
My opinion: It sounds
likes a good book and all, it was on the Best seller’s list for a long time. I won’t be reading it, because it seems
really hard to read. I can read about
her in the newspaper, but I would be too depressed by reading the book.
Kermit
Gosnell: I cut out this National Post
article called “Standard practice was…to slay babies” by Maryclaire Dale on Mar. 18, 2013. Here are some
excerpts:
Gosnell,
72, is accused of running a rogue clinic that ignored the state ban on
third-term abortions and 24-hour waiting periods. Prosecutors say he also
maimed desperate, often poor women and teens by letting his untrained staff
perform abortions and give anesthesia. And they say he got rich doing it, by
performing a high volume of substandard abortions.
Police found
$250,000 in cash during a 2010 search of his home, Assistant District Attorney
Joanne Pescatore said. Gosnell used outmoded drugs and unorthodox methods,
forcing women to endure labor and then deliver live babies that were then
killed by staff with scissors, she said. Normally, the fetus is killed in
utero.
Staff
went along with the routine because they were nearly as desperate as the
patients, she said. The two other “doctors” on staff were allegedly medical
school doctors without licenses. The employee giving anesthesia was a
sixth-grade dropout, while a 15-year-old high school student helped in the
surgical and recovery rooms, she said.
I looked
him up now, and he’s in prison for life.
Jun. 10 Pamela Anderson: I
read about how she suffered sexual abuse.
She was molested by her female babysitter, raped by her friend’s older
brother when she was 12, and gang-raped when she was 14. Her love of animals helped her.
The Pamela Anderson Foundation’s mission is to provide funding for groups and individuals “on the front lines of human rights, animal rights and environmental protection,” according to its mission statement.
I was reading in Metro on May 23, 2014 that “Cpl. Darren Lagen
told Metro that an investigator with Ladysmith RCMP will be ‘reaching out’ to Anderson.”
Offensive shirt: I found
this on Yahoo news on Jun. 4. “A Pea in
a Pod pulls Wake Me Up When I’m Skinny maternity shirt.” There are lots of comments:
Person: It is too bad the world has
lost its sense of humour . A friend used to (20 years ago) have a t-shirt that
read, "Join the Military. See The World, Meet Interesting People And Kill
Them." It was a funny parody of a commercial for recruitment at the time.
Of course, you could not wear a shirt like that today without offending someone.
In the seventies, another friend had a shirt that read, "Reality is an
escape for those that cannot handle drugs." And yet another friend had a
shirt that read, "I do not have drinking problem. I drink, I pass out, no
problem." Are such phrases immature? Yes. Did they make people smile? You
be the judge of that.
Person 2: I have an obese friend
who has a shirt that says "I Beat Anorexia". Should we slam the store
that sold him that shirt too? This world is just so full of crybabies it's
going to be a friggen wonder if the adults today can survive into their old age
without going insane.
Person 3: Seriously, people take
things to heart way too much.
As a pregnant person, this is hilarious. Really, it doesn't bother me. Would I buy it? No. So if you don't like it, don't buy it. Everyone has a different view on their own pregnancy, so why complain? Just pass it by and move on!
As a pregnant person, this is hilarious. Really, it doesn't bother me. Would I buy it? No. So if you don't like it, don't buy it. Everyone has a different view on their own pregnancy, so why complain? Just pass it by and move on!
Person 4: Won´t be long and one
will not be able to get out of bed in the morning without consulting the
politicaly correct dictionary in order not to be sued, or chastised or
criminally charged or boycotted for something that this so inperfect society
deems wrong! the bored and rich are now the gods is that it?
My opinion: I didn’t like
the shirt slogan, but that’s my opinion.
I’m sure there are people out there who like it. I’m a little offended by "Join the
Military. See The World, Meet Interesting People And Kill Them." However, I’m not going to tell someone who’s
wearing that and say “I find that offensive.”
If it’s a school dress code, then you have to tell that person not to
wear it.
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