Archive for the ‘Government’ Category
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He Had A Dream
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
January 15, 2009 will be the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. This was a man of vision and fighter for the civil rights for a race of people who had long been denied the basic freedom because of the color of their skin. His struggle was won through civil disobedience and other non violent [...]
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A Year To Remember … or Forget!
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Each person will reflect on the passing year with their own intellect and emotions. Being a person who sometimes feel too much, I will first remember the great pride I feel when I think of our new president, Barack Obama. I also feel fear for the same reason. Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, [...]
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Wake me because I must be dreaming!
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Today I wake up in a country that has chosen to elect a Black man to the highest position in the country if not the world, president of the United States of America. I have in years before not taken to worrying about politics. But this year I listened and wondered if this country that [...]
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Act now or regret it later
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Each election is important but it has been a long time since one will mean the life or death of our way of life as we know it. Look around us what do we see? In California those of us who bought houses and thought we had built up nice healthy equalities to be tapped [...]
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Death by Emergency Room care or lack there of
Friday, September 26th, 2008
More and more stories are coming to light of the deaths of people being brought to emergency rooms where they die. Two of the latest cases have been patients in the ER who were there for long periods of time and nobody went to see about their needs. Both patients were psychiatric patients and both seemed to [...]