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................................................... Section One: Table Notes ............................................................................ (Note: these notes were taken at the table and have NOT been approved or corrected by the speakers. Reader
beware of inevitable misunderstandings and misrepresentations. E.B.)
At the Table on Wednesday Table Notes for July 11, 2007
Neil Anderson, Mira Rowan, Shari Able, Mr. G, Guy Bins, Daniel Lewis, Mary Biehn, Stephanie Turner, Chad Benjamin Potter
NOTES TAKEN BY CHAD BENJAMIN POTTER...many thanks!
Announcements
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLEN!!! (thanks guys! Ellen)
Mira: The carrot cake is from Servatii’s
Mira: How many people have seen “Sicko”? It’s revolutionary. Let’s topic
Mr. G. There is a meeting tomorrow in the basement of the Hyde Park library for organizers of people from Cincinnati to stop the war. “Iraq’s Summer Camp” to pressure Voinovich and Schmidt. 6:30p
Chad: Has anyone heard of Quixtar? I understand that it is an online buying community. Does anyone have any opinions?
Mira: What is the news on Sitwells?
Shari: yes they are losing their lease because the owners son wants to open an Italian Sub Shop. The owner is asking that we write letters to the owner of the building and to the papers to voice your opinion about the closing.
The parade. It was long, Washburn showed up with a parade within a parade. The women’s lawn chair brigade, the men’s “drill” team. The Barnyard Burlesque.
Daniel: I got my first broccoli from the garden
Mr. G: My California redwood reached 2’
Chad: Letter from Sierra Club telling about the possible reopening of the Sequoia forest for logging
Topic Nominations
“Sicko”
Shari: Cindy Sheehan is making plans to run again Nancy Pelosi as in independent in San Francisco in order to make Pelosi more adamant about ending the war.
Mr. G: Bloomberg is not a republican anymore, would people still vote for him
Mira: who watched the live earth concert? The interrogation of the democratic candidates.
Mary: article from Time saying how bush’s own appointees have voted against his policies regarding Guantanamo
Guantanamo: first topic
Mary: Bush’s own appointees have voted again denying us citizens their due process rights
Shari: bush is not a lawyer and does not get the nuances that lawyers sense. His lawyers still owe an allegiance to the law.
Group: all the presidents have had law degrees except for Reagan. Truman played the piano.
Stephanie: (reads an excerpt from Time magazine article on the detainees and Bush appointees)
Mira: this reminds me of the circuit court in Cincinnati that refused to work with the ACLU because there was not proof of wire taps in the
Stephanie: those who were wire tapped can never prove it because there are classified documents.
MR. G has anyone seen the Guantanamo bay movie?
Sicko:
Mr. G: I’m wondering about the claims in the movie. There’s free health care in other countries, true, but what of it?
Daniel: you cannot get something for nothing. Where does it come from?
Group: Taxes
Mr. G: the advantage to our health care is that you can control you money.
Mary: medical people complain that there are waits to get certain surgeries in other countries.
Mr. G: guy lost two fingers, went to hospital and said that to reattach one finger would be 12k and the other would be 60k. He only attached the cheaper finger
Daniel: Exaggeration from “bowling for columbine” Canadians don’t lock their doors. That’s an exaggeration. The Charlton Heston stunt was a low blow as well. Two issues: there are proposals that it’s competition that refines a product. and Medical care for the poor? At whose expense? Who should pay?
Shari: the financial competition may not be strong, but the scientific competition does encourage doctors and researchers to offer the best care.
Mr. G: I’m not sure how there is no financial
Daniel: Researchers are not free from the financial incentives. Someone puts money in for us to do our work. To properly protect human rights, you must have at least a million dollars to conduct research. Research would not accelerate as quickly where there's no financial incentive
Mr. G: there is medical research in England, France, Canada. Perhaps the government funding is stronger from the revenue gained in taxes. I’m a mathematician and the things that I write go into free journals that don’t give us any money. We are the poor man’s scientist. It is at a much lower place than if we were to have more funding. The universities of us accept everyone. The colleges in other countries have much higher standards. There are hard tests and most fail out of school in the first year.
Stephanie: Yes, in France where I taught, we were told to fail the bottom half of the class. It’s very competitive to stay in school. You go right to law school. You don’t fool around for four years first.
Sheehan:
Shari: What about that? What about going after someone who’s really halfway there?
Mr. G: I’m fed up with democratic noise and no action. In the recent interviews, there were different questions with different answers and it was hard to compare. Biden had great answers.
Mira: we need a department of peace.
Mr. G. Homeland security a third of the jobs are vacant.
Mary: the armed service recruiters have not been able to meet their quotas. They lowered their standards and their goals in order to say that they had met them.
Shari: There’s a Stop Loss Clause, says that the military has the right to keep you longer in order to stop the total loss of the military. This has been made more pronounced as stays are extended.
Mira: The National Guard is also being depleted.
Mr. G: 75% of the population is sneering at the war these days.
Stephanie: They are taking kids up to 42 years old.
Shari: They are taking people with minor criminal offenses. The British sent all their criminals to Australia
Stephanie: a soldier on NPR said he would vote for anyone who could make the connection with the environment, the oil, and the need to stop war.
Daniel: I’ve heard it mentioned that we should get out of Iraq, How? What would it cost? Responsibilities for damage?
Mira: Lots of people feel there is a responsibility to take account
Shari: there’s a new spin. We won the war when we got rid of Hussein. Now the war is to help the Iraq people set up a peaceful government
Daniel: after talking with my dad, clear why we came in. IN WWII, we came, and decapitated a nation and built a strong democracy in Germany and Japan. Before the Philippines, our mentality was that “he may be a bastard, but he’s our bastard.” Marcos… democratization of the Philippines. Regime changes in Iraq don’t happen in one party. We’ve always been fighting the gulf war. The Clinton admin decided to go to the regime change. In this case, an invasion was decided to try and minimize uncertainly the outcome of the war. Japan was a united people. The Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq were ruled by people sitting on hand grenades. When they were pulled out, they pulled the pin with them. To leave now, the worst would rush into power and there would be blood in the streets. The human costs to leave would be devastating. How do we get out with minimal damage in the aftermath?
Mira: just get out and leave the chaos
Shari: Leave the contractors there. There are as many contractors as there are militants. Contractors are there by choice.
Mr. G.: I have been squirming with this question for a while. Redeployment has taken on a new meaning. Used to mean moving soldiers to other countries. It now means to remove American soldiers from the thick of the battle, but keep them in Iraq. This is meant to have the tribes face each other and deal with their differences.
Mira: if there was a clear way to get soldiers out and create peace in Iraq, that would be great. But it doesn’t seem like this is a possibility.
Stephanie: some compare this to Ireland. Hostility went down after the economic situation improved
Mr. G: Colin Powell, you make it you break it you fix it. What if it cannot be fixed? Maybe we just need to admit we messed up
Daniel: if we leave, they will chase us.
Mr. G: I feel safe but I believe that the media has put the fear in all of us, when the risks of driving, and smoking, and working are so much more risky than terrorist. I’m a New Yorker, when bush capitalized on the falling of the towers, I was devastated. But I still feel safe. The media is helping the terrorists out by spreading their message. They propose the personal risk assessment in irrational ways
~ End of Table Notes~
Hugs to everyone,
Ellen
Section Two: Events & Opportunities
(Our wonderful drumming guru, Pete Carels sends this. Great guy. Try to go. Ellen)
Hi Ellen,
Sorry to hear about your flu, yuckk. Seems you're back
on track again, though. Maybe you needed to keep on
doing the sauna thing!
I'm writing about our Drum Barn FIRST ANNIVERSARY Party,
on Bastille Day, Saturday, July 14th, because it would
be great if you were able to come up and join us for
that. We'll have drummer and dancer friends from the
greater Oxford metroplex (which includes Cincinnati,
as you know).
Here's how we're organizing it:
Arrival between 5:45 and 7:00 means you are bringing
a wee tad of something to share for a potluck supper
that will go on until it's over (probably around 7:30
or a bit beyond). After that, it's party snacks and
drinks as we form groups indoors and out (please, oh
weather gods, smile upon our endeavor) for drumming,
other music and merry-making. Parking over on nearby
Patrick (Just a few steps from our driveway.)
Here
are directions. Follow RT. 27 into uptown Oxford.
When it turns right at the Shell Station, you DON'T
do that, but keep on straight west instead. That
will take you to our house. One mile from that
corner by the Shell. House number 6385. It's on
the mailbox. If you drive past the house and box,
you'll have to turn around and backtrack a short
block to Patrick. Plenty of street parking there.
We'd love to see you. (We have plenty of drums,
so you wouldn't need to bring one along.)
Pete Carels
Standing Women send this on:
On July 17, 2007 at 11:11 Greenwich Mean Time, we are called to amass a union of humans, such as the world has never seen. Loving humans with one intention – to heal our planet and awaken our souls to our true purpose. We will be healing our planet’s energy field, in the same way that Shelley Yates was guided to heal her son when he had drowned. Read her story and the call she brings at www.firethegrid.org. Imagine a process of deep connection maturing in the interval between 7/7 and 7/17.
With many blessings and much gratitude,
The web team at StandingWomen.org
A Small Group Update
July 12, 2007
The next monthly A Small Group meeting is tomorrow, Friday, July 13 from 4:30 to 6:00PM at Peaslee Neighborhood Center.
Save the Date for these upcoming ASG opportunities...
Intensive Learning Opportunity- August 25
Civic Engagement Series- September 4 & 11
We have a new website. It is still a work in progress. We would love to know what you think and welcome any of your stories, photos, community connections, reflections, links.....
Community Connections Update
A Small Group Community Connections is a compilation of unique events, learning opportunities and annoucements that may enrich your lives. This information has been submitted by you and others from the A Small Group community who value supporting quality offerings. Please feel free to share this information so that others can enjoy these offerings and to strengthen our community connections. If you have information you would like to add to share with the community, please forward the details to collette@asmallgroup.net.
Events
Edensong 2007 - July 13th, 20th, 27th
8:00pm -- free and open to the public at the Seasongood Pavilion (near the Art Museum)in Eden Park; Presented by The Queen City Balladeers
July 13th (featuring Liz Bowater, Greg Jowaisas, The Sheds, Joe Jencks, Swamp Fox)
July 20th (featuring Sharon Udoh & Jen Wheatley, David Wolfenberger, Ma Crow and the Mother Pluckers, Greg Schaber, Cincinnati Dancing Pigs)
July 27th (featuring Neil Jacobs, Jake Speed & the Freddies, Rob Fetters, Raison d'Etre, Changeling)
Here's the link for more information about the balladeers. http://www.qcballadeers.org/
Local Peace & Justice Groups Quarterly Get-Together and Brunch- July 14
Saturday, July 14 from 10AM to 12PM at Peaslee Neighborhood Center (Networking starts at 9:30AM and a potluck brunch begins at 12PM)
The goal of these gathering is to become aware of local peace and justice groups and of their work; create connections and build a diverse progressive community with shared visions; help each other, each organized effort, and be the most powerful we can be; create something together that we can’t do alone; and have conversations that cross boundaries and respect differences.
J.J. Staples of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) is the coordinator and the facilitator for this session on solidarity unionism
To reserve your seat or for questions email saad.ghosn@uc.edu
Studio 89 Free Concerts @ WNKU
Mondays thru August 27th @ 8:30 PM at Studio 89, 301 Landrum Academic Center, Highland Heights, KY 41099
Was once Monday night's best kept secret, Studio 89 now requires advance reservations. Seating is limited, make reservations up to a week in advance.
July 16 = Swinging Steaks
July 23 = Rob Fetters
July 30 = Hobex
August 6 = Kim Taylor
August 13 = TBA
August 20 = Toby Myers & Moe Z
August 27 = Jayne Sachs Band.
More info & reservations @ 859.572.6500, radio@nku.edu, & www.wnku.org/page_wnku.asp?p=0530720.
Workshops and Trainings
Developmental Assets: Tools for Helping Youth Grow Up Healthy and Connected ~ August 10, 2007.
The morning will be focused on asset building and congregations.
All types and sizes of congregations have great potential to contribute to young people growing up healthy, responsible, and faithful. Yet too many churches, mosques, synagogues, and other faith communities struggle to engage youth—and keep them engaged. Developmental Assets offer a foundational framework for examining and transforming all areas of congregational life to bring out their best for and with young people. Drawing on extensive research and pilot projects with congregations, this session will offer practical, concrete ways that congregational leaders can introduce asset building into their congregations and begin implementing asset-building approaches in their own programs as well as in the broader community. It will also introduce Search Institute’s emerging work that links asset building with spiritual development.
The afternoon topic is using research to strengthen community-based asset building efforts.
Many people are drawn to asset building because of the research showing the powerful relationship between young people’s Developmental Assets and their behaviors, including reduced alcohol use, increased school success, and other measures of healthy development. How can these data be effectively used at a community level? What measurement tools and research methods are available to examine assets and related issues at the individual, program, and community levels? What existing data sources are available to help communities with planning? What are appropriate ways to interpret and use data to strengthen asset-building efforts and to show that you’re making a difference? These questions will be explored, as participants are introduced to a variety of available tools, approaches, and case studies on using research at a community and organization level to guide asset-building efforts.
The speakers are the leading experts from Searh Institute. There are half day ($25) and full day($40) registration options. Scholarships are available. Lunch is $5. For more information go to http://www.asapcenter.org/, call the ASAP Center at 513-458-6640 or email asap@healthfoundation.org
Announcements
Rx Integrative Solutions, Inc. is the for-profit consulting practice of Dr. Cathy Creger Rosenbaum, holistic clinical pharmacist, Founder & CEO. Clients may schedule a one-hour interview regarding the evidence-based, safe use of herbs, vitamins, and other dietary supplements. Supplement/prescription medication interactions are evaluated. A written report will be mailed to the client, and his/her physician, at the completion of the interivew. Dr. Rosenbaum has traveled to China to study herbal research and global healthcare solutions. She is a member of the American Holistic Medical Association, the Association of Natural Medicine Pharmacists, and is available for public speaking seminars/presentations upon request. Please visit her website at www.rxintegrativesolutions.com or contact her for more information at drcathy@rxintegrativesolutions.com.
Have you said something great about Cincinnati today?
A Small Group / Peter Block's Office 215 East 14th Street - Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
513-451-0166 www.asmallgroup.net :: contact us
FREE YOGA class at Burnet Woods every Saturday through September 1st:
11:15 am ˆ 12:15 pm
Bring a mat or towel, water & sunglasses
Adjoining the University of Cincinnati, Burnet Woods is located at Clifton Avenue between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Ludlow Avenue. The yoga class will meet at the historic bandstand located in the park. It is one of the oldest structures in the Cincinnati park system and a beautiful location for yoga. Surrounded by trees, blue skies and green grass, we will embrace the presence of nature in yoga. All levels welcome. Come anytime!
For more information contact:
Gratitude in Motion 268 Ludlow Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
info@gratitudeinmotion.com | 888-899-9642 | www.gratitudeinmotion.com
EarthSave Cincinnati
and
Impact Youth ECO Garden
present
Food for Life
Friends and neighbors welcome
to join us for a community meal
Sunday, July 15th, 2007, 2:00pm
Washington Park, Over the Rhine
Please bring plenty of vegan food to share
& your own plates, cups, utensils.
Vegetables, fruits, grains, beans, seeds, nuts
(no animal products, no dairy, eggs, casein, honey)
For more information: 513-929-2500
http://cincinnati.earthsave.org
email: cincinnati@earthsave.org
EarthSave promotes food choices that are healthy for people and the planet.
We educate, inspire and empower a shift toward a plant-based diet
and encourage compassionate action for all life on Earth.
Cindy Herrick (Clifton’s secret weapon) to present at the Salon Wed. 25 July
On the Clifton Cultural Arts Center
Every Community should be so lucky as to have a Cindy Herrick... Elightened, energetic, indefatiguable. Below, what she wrote on her project for Clifton: ellen
The mission of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (CCAC) is to strengthen the critical link between participation in the cultural arts and successful children, adults and communities. CCAC was formed in June 2004 after an extensive community engagement process surrounding construction of a new public school building in Clifton (Cincinnati, Ohio) and the resultant vacancy of a 1906 public school building and adjacent 1880s stone carriage house. CCAC will renovate these two historic buildings into a 57,000 square foot Cultural Arts Center on a 9-acre urban campus, which includes a Cincinnati Recreation Commission Center and the future $13 million, 85,000 square foot public school.
CCAC is currently raising capital funds for renovation of the Clifton Carriage House and the 1906 Clifton School building. Carriage House renovation (October 2007 – August 2008) is estimated at $700,000 and timed in conjunction with the completion of the new public school, allowing teachers to integrate use of the Carriage House during the day for students when the new school is open. Renovation of the 1906 Clifton School will occur in 3 phases following completion of the Carriage House, beginning in September 2008 and finishing in late 2010.
The CCAC vision is rooted in collaboration (www.cliftonculturalarts.org). CCAC will draw in large and small organizations to expand their own audiences and foster development of new initiatives. Core programming provided by large, established organizations (Art Academy of Cincinnati, CCM Prep Department, and the Institute for Lifetime Education) is like anchor businesses in a shopping or business center. The presence of established programs will draw other organizations of all sizes and provide a home for those without their own space. The presence of the school and recreation center on the community learning center campus will provide for further synergies among partner organizations.
To learn more come to the presentation on Wednesday, July 25.
Ellen Bierhorst, Ph.D. Is a holistic psychotherapist with over 35 years experience. Specialty area: Optimizing Mental Health ~ “Better than well”. Also: healing trauma, strengthening families and relationships, alcohol and other addictions including food, and weight management, EMDR, GLBT, chronic pain and physical illness. Clifton. 513 221 1289 www.lloydhouse.com
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Section Three: Articles
Contents:
- Join Steve Sunderland in objecting to Supreme Court ruling on race and education
- Mollie Bowers: stinky advertisement bashes union
- Jeanette Raichyk: “Sicko” talks about costs but not heart of the matter
Steve Sunderland: Supreme Court goes ‘Colorblind’! ... Want to join with Steve in this letter? Send email to Steve Sunderland <sundersc@email.uc.edu> print and send it yourself or write your own letter. Ellen.
Background: On 6/28/07 the Supreme Court decided by a vote of 5 to 4 to throw out school board plans by Seattle and Louisville because of the use of race to balance schools. 4 Justices were agreed that race could not be used. One Justice said he agreed with the majority but race could sometimes be used. 4 other Justices said that the majority was wrong based on precedents of previous cases over the past 50 years.
Dear Chief Justice Roberts:
The recent decision of the majority of the Supreme Court to change systems of school discrimination from those that are race based to "colorblind" ones, ignores some of the important themes of the past 60 years:
1. The American people have tried to move from segregated frames of reference to integrated ones even though many state, local and federal practitioners along with religious and political leaders have fought almost every attempt. The good will of the American people stretches back a long way in the area of civil rights: early in our Revolutionary years, Benjamin Franklin, a former slave owner, led an abolitionist movement that had a deep impression on Washington and Jefferson. The failure to abolish slavery before the Civil War, as Britain did, has led to halting steps for justice in the minds of many Americans. We are caught, again, with confusion about whether our Constitution is a document of justice or injustice. Americans, taking the principles of this Court's latest decision, can now avoid the good conscience effort to seek to break down segregated schooling and housing patterns, economic discriminatory rules, and religious bigotry. Traditionally, many citizens of this country know what is right; yet, our Supreme Court has chosen to act as if racial prejudice against children is a past experience and need not be corrected by plans for inclusion. "I fear the consequences... for the law, for the schools, for the democratic process, and for American's efforts to create, out of its diversity, one Nation." Dissent by Justice Bryer in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 et al.
2. The American people are committed to some form of good education for their children even though segregated systems of education, created as part of a private and parochial system, have too often sent a counter message: "We need to be separate if we are to have "good" education." This Court's decision makes it difficult to raise the standard of justice in education for all of our children and plays into the fears and biases of our public that "racially balanced" schools may lower educational standards. The American public knows that prejudice, hatred, and unfairness are not correct attitudes in terms of defining educational systems for children and neighborhoods. The legacy of racism has created a mind-set that says that re-segregation is "the best we can do." The school systems of Louisville, Seattle, Cincinnati and other major cities reflects a stubborn racism only partially relieved by prior Supreme Court rulings. Rather than focus on the tremendous breakthroughs to improve diversity in teacher training, neighborhood involvement, and the political action of school boards since the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown, your Court's decision reinforces the attitude of consigning children to poor schools, poor employment and deteriorating cities. "And what of law's concern to diminish and peacefully settle conflict among the Nation's people? Instead of accommodating different good-faith visions of our country and our Constitution, today's holding upsets settled expectation, creates legal uncertainty, and threatens to produce considerable further litigation, aggravating race-related conflict." Justice Bryer for the minority in the dissent.
3. The American people are committed to education that sees the gifts of every child and builds on these gifts through creative, compassionate, and integrated education. The American experience of segregation fosters a negative and faulty perspective on what it takes to build good schools and eduate healthy children. Children who are hated for their skin color, or, treated rudely because of their use of a language different from English, or, singled out to receive "labels" that hide their human potential, are citizens that will have to fight against your decision to make justice the central value of our schools. The Court's decision goes against research in education that reveals the many gifts of children pervious excluded from integrated systems of education. These gifts cannot easily be seen without methods that respect the culture of each child and methods that can look past skin color, language skills and surface "disabilities.""...the plurality's approach risks serious harm to the law and for the Nation. Its view of the law rests either upon a denial of the distinction between exclusionary and inclusive use of race-conscious criteria in the context of the Equal Protection Clause, or upon such a rigid application of its "test" that the distinction loses practical significance. Consequently, the Court's decision today slows down and sets back the work of local school boards to bring about racially diverse schools." Justice Bryer for the four dissenting Justices.
4. The efforts to build a strong America have never been easy. The questions surrounding prejudice have been very deep elements in our national character. Perhaps slavery has so frightened the average majority American that only very limited progress can be sustained in our schools. Perhaps our majority fears of difference will continue to construct temporary barriers to those students and their families, also Americans, who seek an America that is fundamentally welcoming of difference, . The ruling of your Court is a setback for parents and children in our schools. But is only a temporary slowing down of what is a stronger and more compassionate force in our society. Racial harmony can be obtained. Inclusion of students based on conscious and planned choices will occur. The Supreme Court, prior to 1954, walked backward on American justice. The last 60 years have taught us that the journey to change our society is rarely easy, frequently filled with conflict, and inextricably bound up with historical ignorance. Yet, the Supreme Court changed for the better and improved our country. Your decision threatens all of this progress. Yet, we see that we must raise our voices in protest of your ideas. The songs we sing shall inspire us until that day when, "We Shall Overcome."
In peace,
Steve Sunderland, Ph.D., Director
Peace Village
513.919.2538
professor of educational and peace studies
University of Cincinnati
College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0049
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum
Salonista Mollie Bowers (labor dispute mediator) sends this: Anti-labor advertisement on TV...
Hi Ellen: Sorry I haven't been able to come to the salon lately. I've had hernia surgery and am recovering. In case a talking point is lacking, I've seen this advert on TV against the UFCW (the United Food and Commercial Workers). I suspect it is financed, in whole or in part, by Wal-Mart. The representations are inaccurate. There is a website indicated, but I bet it doesn't tell who's financing this trash. I'm upset about this advert and by the lack of clear disclosure about who's funding it. Maybe you or some of the folks attend know more. I'd love to know. Thanks much. Hope all is well. Mollie
(I tried to find out more... Here’s the Wikipedia site... It’s a huge union, 1.4 million members: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Food_and_Commercial_Workers
But I couldn’t find the advertisement. Anybody? Ellen)
Jeanette Raichyk: ‘Sicko’ omits iatrogenic deaths in U.S.
Sicko’s conclusions boggle the minds of Progressives...Wish they’d wake up!
Well now let's see... suppose 18000 actually die because they lack insurance, that means that the rate of death from this cause -- which affects 50 million in the US -- is .036% or 36 out of 100,000.
It also means that 250 million -- roughly -- have health insurance. But we also know that iatrogenic -- doctor and hospital caused -- death is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US with over a 100,000 deaths, obviously basically among the insured. That means that the rate of death from the cause of "being insured" in the US is .04% or 40 out of 100,000.
Seems to me, since that 100,000 was intentionally rounded down -- note the "over" -- and the 250million is rounded up -- the US isn't quite at 300 million yet -- that you are decidedly better off being uninsured... iatrogenic death is only behind cancer and heart disease as killers.
Whose side is Michael Moore on??? Next he'll be trying to get us free drugs from big pharma... oy.
Jeanette Raichyk
Section Four: Books/Movies/Magazines/Reviews
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Come on... send me names of books and stuff you are enjoying. ellen
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Salonista Nancy Dawley...Nonviolence
I just read (on CD) an very interesting book called Nonviolence - Twenty-five lessons from the history of a dangerous idea by Mark Kurlansky. Forward by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
I recommend it, although it may change a lot of history taught you throughout your schooling and religious training.
Here are the 25 lessons.... to get your interest....
1. There is no proactive word for nonviolence.
2. Nations that build military forces as deterrents will eventually use them.
3. Practitioners of nonviolence are seen as enemies of the state.
4. Once a state takes over a religion, the religion loses its nonviolent teachings.
5. A rebel can be defanged and co-opted by making him a saint after he is dead.
6. Somewhere behind every war there are always a few founding lies.
7. A propaganda machine promoting hatred always has a war waiting in the wings.
8. People who go to war start to resemble their enemy.
9. A conflict between a violent and a nonviolent force is a moral argument. If the violent side can provoke the nonviolent side into
violence, the violent side has won.
10. The problem lies not in the nature of man but in the nature of power.
11. The longer a war lasts, the less popular it becomes.
12. The state imagines it is impotent without a military because it cannot conceive of power without force.
13. It is often not the largest but the best organized and most articulate group that prevails.
14. All debate momentarily ends with an "enforced silence" once the first shots are fired.
15. A shooting war is not necessary to overthrow an established power but is used to consolidate the revolution itself.
16. Warfare produces peace activists. A group of veterans is a likely place to find peace activists.
18. People motivated by fear do not act well.
19. While it is perfectly feasible to convince a people faced with brutal repression to rise up in a suicidal attack on their oppressor,
it is almost impossible to convince them to meet deadly violence with nonviolent resistance.
20. Wars do not have to be sold to the general public if they can be carried out by an all-volunteer professional military.
21. Once you start the business of killing, you just get "deeper and deeper" without limits.
22. Violence always comes with a supposedly rational explanation--which is only dismissed as irrational if the violence fails.
23. Violence is a virus that infects and takes over.
24. The miracle is that despite all of society's promotion of warfare, most soldiers find warfare to be a wrenching departure from their
own moral values.
25. The hard work of beginning a movement to end war has already been done.
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Terrific articles in July 16 issue of Time Mag, including
How we get addicted: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1640436,00.html
Addiction and the Brain: http://www.time.com/time/2007/addiction/
Gay Family Values (gay and lesbian parenting): http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1640411,00.html
The Lloyd House Salon (usually about 12 people) Meets on WEDNESDAYS at 5:45,
EVERY Wednesday, 52 WEEKS/YEAR come hell or high water, as my mother used to say.
We of the Lloyd House Salon gather in a spirit of
respect, sympathy and compassion for one another
in order to exchange ideas for our mutual pleasure and enlightenment.
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Our Salon blog is a promising interactive site: http:lloydhouse.blogspot.com
Also, we have an Interactive Yahoo Salon group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LloydHouseSalon
For Pot Luck procedures including food suggestions, mission and history visit
http://home.fuse.net/ellenbierhorst/Potluck.html .
You are invited also to visit the Lloyd House website: http://www.lloydhouse.com
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