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Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice: for they shall be filled. Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me. The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works. He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord. Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the Lord, O my soul. Praise ye the Lord.

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Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable 🕊️
« on: August 31, 2022, 05:45:39 pm »
AGelbert NOTE: Originally posted October 17, 2013 at the Renewable Revolution Forum. The post replies are in the same sequence. I will continue this thread with new posts after these duplicated posts and the replies.

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Re: Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable 🕊️
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2022, 05:57:44 pm »
October 17, 2013, 07:44:58 pm

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Re: Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable 🕊️
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2022, 06:02:47 pm »
October 18, 2013, 05:00:26 am
Great thread, AG. But emotionally exhausting!
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Re: Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable 🕊️
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2022, 06:07:58 pm »
October 19, 2013, 07:05:43 pm
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Great thread, AG. But emotionally exhausting!

Agreed. My goal with this thread is to provide perspective that, painful as it is, we must never lose sight of what goes on out there day in and day out that is gut wrenching, tragic and downright frightening in it's level of chaos and the apparent mindless anarchy of the human condition.

Throughout all this apparent godless series of horrors, I see God acting through the biosphere in general and brave people that struggle in the face of adversity in particular. This is inspiring to me. I frankly don't know how they do it because I don't know how I would have the strength to carry on in their shoes.

But somehow, even though tragic failures abound, those victories are real and I see God working in them to show us He cares. And that gives me hope and strengthens my Faith.

As I now pass the 67 year old mark, this passage from the bible that has always been a head scratcher for me is beginning to make more sense.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen -- Hebrews 11:1
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« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2022, 06:30:06 pm »

Quote from: Surly1 on October 20, 2013, 08:41:08 pm
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This last comment is why I like your work so much, and your overall attitude and approach.

Doing a great job with this page and the cross posting, BTW. I put a LOT of your stuff up on the Book of Faces.
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Re: Human Life is Fragile, But EVERY Life is Valuable 🕊️
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2022, 06:40:52 pm »
October 21, 2013, 02:30:39 pm
Surly,
Thank you for sharing my zeal to spread hard truths as well as hope, no matter how forlorn that hope may look,

You and I KNOW that hope is out there and it is REAL. 
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During World War II (1945), a Japanese boy stood in front of a funeral pyre and waited his turn to cremate his dead younger brother.


The person who took the photo said in an interview that the boy was biting his lip so hard to keep from crying that blood was dripping from the corner of his mouth.

It was then that the guard asked for the body and said, "Give me the load you are carrying on your back." And the boy replied, "He's not heavy, he's my brother."

He handed over the body, turned around and left... In Japan, even today, this image is used as a symbol of strength.

https://www.quora.com/

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. -- Matthew 4-5
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How Are Newborns Who Are Relinquished at Birth Kept Safe?
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2022, 07:19:30 pm »
April 27, 2020, 04:08:07 pm

How Are Newborns Who Are Relinquished at Birth Kept Safe?

In 1999, Texas became the first U.S. state to tackle the problem of abandoned babies, some of whom were being left in trash bins or suffering other ghastly fates after being born outside the hospital system. The state enacted what was known as a Baby Moses Law, a safe-haven law designed to save lives by encouraging parents to surrender infants safely. In 2016, activist Monica Kelsey took that idea a step further when she convinced Indiana to install Safe Haven Baby Boxes at fire stations. A mother who wants to surrender her baby safely and anonymously can now simply place the infant in a baby hatch, which typically resembles a bank’s night deposit box.

A safe place for abandoned infants:

🕊 Here’s how the system typically works: When a person opens the baby box, a call is immediately placed to 911, and fire and medical personnel are dispatched. When closed, the box locks automatically.


🕊 The box is padded and climate controlled to keep the baby warm while still allowing air circulation. The baby gets immediate attention, and typically becomes a candidate for adoption later on.



Supporters say safe-haven laws provide an alternative to abortion, infanticide or unsafe child abandonment . Detractors argue that the laws, now in force nationwide, favor mothers and sometimes violate a father’s rights.

https://www.wisegeek.com/how-are-newborns-who-are-relinquished-at-birth-kept-safe.htm

Agelbert NOTE: I am certain that medical "ethicist" (SEE: Orwell) 😈 Ezekiel Emanuel would argue that the Baby Moses Law is "not justified", and it would be "better" for all these unwanted babies to have been aborted or, if they made it to being born, "efficiently" used as food for lions in a zoo, or some other "profitable" use. To a Social Darwinist like Ezekiel Emanuel, unwanted babies are a "burden on society" that, if society acted "rationally and reasonably", could  be "profitably repurposed" by recognizing the fact that, after all, they are just tender, nutritious protein packages a carnivore could gain healthy caloric intake from eating, "nothing more". Medical Doctors of the idiological persuasion of Ezekiel Emanuel are quite willing to make the, uh, "hard choices" that those of us who labor under the "quaint, unrealistic and inefficient" view that we have a moral imperative to treat others as we want others to treat us are too "silly and superstitious" to make.

Message to the Social Darwinists: What goes around, comes around.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
-- Romans 1:28-32


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Nov 22 2022, 6:17 AM By Juliet Schulman-Hal

As demand for home share program grows, more strangers move in together

SNIPPETS:

HomeShare Vermont currently serves Addison, Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, Orange and Washington counties. The organization matches “hosts” and “guests” based on the lifestyle of the applicants, personal preferences and needs. ... ...
In an attempt to incentivize new Burlington homeowners to become hosts through HomeShare Vermont, the Burlington City Council last month unanimously approved a yearlong pilot program. The program allocates $1,000 to 30 hosts over the course of 12 months. ... ...

“We’re trying to really encourage more people to share their homes especially, you know, with the downturn in the economy that might be something that people want to think about doing,” Dunn said.

Dunn said she’s recently noticed an increase in the number of younger individuals applying to become hosts. ... ...

In Stowe, 63-year-old HomeShare guest Gretchen Mills pays no rent in exchange for providing companionship and cooking meals for 89-year-old Hesterly Black.
Black, meanwhile, had been thinking about applying to HomeShare “for quite a long time,” after one of her children brought her a brochure for the program several years ago. ... ...

So far, she and Mills have been living together seamlessly, with Mills making most meals, including her favorite dish of pork with a chutney sauce.

Although there are some geographical divides, including Black raising an eyebrow to Mills’ morning avocado toast — which Black concluded was a California invention — the two have enjoyed cooking and eating meals.

“Often we make it together, and we always eat together. So it's just lovely to have that kind of cadence to a day,” Mills said.... ...

Black’s three-bedroom home is filled with animals, including an African grey parrot, two dogs, a Gloster canary named Donald for the tuft of hair on his head and a beta fish named Liberace due to his flowing fins.

“I have animals — I've always had animals — so Gretchen has had to deal with it,” Black said with a mischievous smile. ... ...

In two-thirds of HomeShare Vermont arrangements, the guest provides some amount of assistance to the host — which could include grocery shopping or bringing the host’s pet to the veterinarian, for example. ... ...

Full heart warming article:
https://vtdigger.org/2022/11/22/as-demand-for-home-share-program-grows-more-strangers-move-in-together/
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Salmon People: A Native Fishing Family’s Fight to Preserve a Way of Life
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2023, 02:29:12 pm »


January 10, 2023 Editorial

The Fight Of The Columbia River Salmon People

Aiyana George with her dad, Sam, at the end of a long day of fishing on the Columbia River Credit: Katie Campbell/ProPublica

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By the time Randy saw his dad in the paper, he was used to his parents being arrested for fishing. He was about 8 the first time he saw them dragged into a police car, and he cried.

Eventually, he’d get arrested, too.

Sometimes the police would stop by The Dalles Wahtonka High School to see if he was there. If he wasn’t, they knew to search along the river for his family.

More often than not, though, teenage Randy Settler was there in school, frequently asleep during first-period history. He’d spend all night setting nets and the early morning pulling them and trucking the catch over to his mom. When he got to school, he’d slip into the back of the classroom and nod off.

“I didn’t mind sleeping through manifest destiny,” he said.

The Settlers became one of the most aggressive commercial fishing families on the river. Alvin, who’d later become a tribal judge, taught himself the law and began to test the limits of the state’s authority over tribal fishing.

Mary Goudy-Settler and Alvin Settler took such a hard line on treaty rights, and racked up so many fishing violations, that one of the Yakama Nation’s council members tried to distance them from tribal government.

But they were building something.

Full article with DETAILED history of this struggle:

https://gcaptain.com/columbia-river-salmon-people/

Salmon People: A Native Fishing Family’s Fight to Preserve a Way of Life

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Where does blind obedience to Capitalism's Social Darwinist Ideology of socially and environmentally destructive Profit over People and Planet end and a sense of responsibility start to take effect, if not at the highest levels of government power?

The casual disregard for the lived experience of working people in America is a 🚩 sign of an unhealthy (SEE: 👿🦍 Social Darwinism) society.

"Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wellbeing." -- 1 Corinthians 10:24

"Fascism has always involved a morally unprincipled, ruthless, and sociopathic pursuit of power as the supreme goal in and of itself. ... ... Having no moral center and being perfectly willing to lose and disdain old friends and allies is part of the game. Fascism has no problem with self-centered individual accumulation of wealth and/or power. To the contrary, its Social Darwinian ethos celebrates such accumulation in the name of natural selection, survival of the fittest, and proper social hierarchy." -- Paul Street - January 6, 2023

It's the 👿🦍 SOCIAL DARWINISM, STUPID!

Social Darwinists believe that the dictum “survival of the fittest” (a term coined not by Charles Darwin but by sociologist Herbert Spencer) means that only the 😈 fittest should survive. Darwin's book published later ("Descent of Man") made it clear that Darwin completely supported the morally bankrupt views of Spencer.

Enthusiastic converts to Social Darwinism have, to this day, used the language of evolution to frame an understanding of the growing gulf between the rich and the poor, as well as the many differences between cultures all over the world. The explanation they arrived at, and continue to use to justify biosphere trashing profit over people and planet, regardless of any alligator tear filled mendacious claims to the contrary, is that businessmen and others who are economically and socially successful are so because they are biologically and socially “naturally” the fittest.
 
Conversely, they reason that the poor are “naturally” weak and unfit and it would be an error to allow the weak of the species to continue to breed.

The money lenders have played a key role in funding this deceit propagated in high schools and universities, where it is passed off as "the Capitalist fiduciary duty of corporations to make a profit above ANY OTHER CONSIDERATION, be it the health and wellbeing of employees or the environment". It is, and always was, legerdemain formulated by the monied elite to dress up selfish, abusive, exploitative and cruel behavior towards "less important" humans and/or animals experimented upon in research labs, as "scientifically justified".

Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are 'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are 'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our species.   
     
The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law: “Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”
Social Darwinists are governed by both unbridled greed and fear of tomorrow, which provide the morally bankrupt excuse for rejecting altruism and empathy and embracing a selfish, greed dominated, hoarding modus vivendi.
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"One who fears tomorrow does not offer his bread to others. But one who is willing to divide his food with a stranger has already shown himself capable of fellowship and faith, the two things from which hope is born." -- Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz
Social Darwinism is the morally bankrupt world view that spawned the profit over people and planet neoliberal ideology. Neoliberal intellectuals like Friedrich von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman were all Social Darwinists long before they renamed laissez-faire liberalism (that had been thoroughly discredited by the Great Depression) with the catchy title of "Neoliberalism".

🤔 Based on what celebrated social theorist and geographer David Harvey has written, I'm surprised that he has not reached the "It's the Social Darwinism, stupid" conclusion yet (see below): 
David Harvey asked, "Is there a way to capture what (to the detriment of human civilization) is going on now" ?
YES.

David Harvey explains that neoliberal ideology serves the following principle:
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"There shall be no serious challenge to the absolute power of money to rule absolutely. And that power is to be exercised with one objective: Those possessed of money shall not only be privileged to accumulate wealth endlessly at will, but they shall have the right to inherit the earth, taking either direct or indirect dominion, not only of the land and all the resources and productive capacities that reside therein, but also assume absolute command, directly or indirectly, over the labor and creative capacities of all those others it needs. The rest of humanity shall be deemed disposable."
David Harvey, “The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis,”. Also, by David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Agelbert OBSERVATION: If the morally bankrupt, socially destructive ideology which champions the absolute power of money to rule absolutely, while it simultaneously deems the rest of humanity disposable, is not SOCIAL DARWINISM, I don't know what is. 😠

The Social Darwinist Oligarchs hate you. They want you to be slaves on their plantation. They want you to have no rights, no freedom, and no future. The Social Darwinist DUOPOLY is there to turn your energy state into fear and anger and sorrow. 

Whether he realized it or not at the time, when Sinclair Lewis wrote this in 1935, he was describing the Social Darwinist worldview: “Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.” -- Sinclair Lewis

"The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." -- Proverbs 21:12-13
"The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright." -- Proverbs 21:18
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Leading Civil Rights, Faith, And Housing Policy Groups Urge HUD To Swiftly Adopt Final AFFH Rule » NCRC

April 25, 2023

Fair housing, civil rights, faith and housing advocacy organizations issued a joint statement urging the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to move quickly in adopting a final affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH) regulation following the closure of the proposed rule’s comment period.

“The goal of the federal Fair Housing Act and, specifically, its mandate to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH) was to rectify the deeply inequitable systems in our nation caused by decades of unjust policies and practices that deprived millions of people from gaining access to secure and healthy housing opportunities. However, for much of the past 55 years, we’ve lacked a robust framework for actually enforcing this important AFFH mandate. As a result, issues like unfair appraisals, biased technologies, a dual credit market, restrictive zoning policies, health and food deserts and aspects of subsidized housing administration persist and continue to drive disproportionate outcomes in health, education, wealth, homeownership, technology, environment, climate, employment and other areas.

“Our organizations commended HUD’s leadership for releasing its updated Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) proposed rule this year, an important step toward expanding fair housing. Now that the proposed rule’s comment period has closed, we call on HUD to move swiftly in adopting a final rule that creates more equitable, well-resourced and inclusive communities in which all residents can thrive. In order for the final rule to accomplish this, a number of elements must be strengthened, such as:

1. Local fair housing outreach and enforcement capacity should be a fair housing goal category.

2. The requirements of the community engagement process must be clarified.

3. HUD must increase transparency in the equity planning process.

“In addition, HUD must address the full scope of the AFFH mandate.

“We look forward to working with HUD to advance an effective final AFFH rule, and we are eager to further work with the broader administration to implement the regulation in a way that truly benefits everyone in this nation.”

This statement was issued jointly by the following organizations:

🗽 The National Fair Housing Alliance
🗽 American Civil Liberties Union
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Justice in Aging
🌞 National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD)
🗽 National Community Reinvestment Coalition
🗽 National Housing Law Project
🕊️ National Low Income Housing Coalition
🗽 The Arc of the United States
🌞 UnidosUS

ncrc.org/leading-civil-rights-faith-and-housing-policy-groups-urge-hud-to-swiftly-adopt-final-affh-rule/

Where does blind obedience to Capitalism's Social Darwinist Ideology of socially and environmentally destructive Profit over People and Planet end and a sense of responsibility start to take effect, if not at the highest levels of government power?

"The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." -- Proverbs 21:12-13
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June 1, 2023 by Edwin Leap, MD

Dear Colleagues: You Don't Hate People
— You're just stretched really thin

It's something one hears too often in healthcare. I've heard it my entire career at one time or another. More in the last few years, with the shortages, pandemics, lions, tigers, and bears...

A nurse, physician, medic, or someone else involved in the madness of bedside care comes back to their desk, collapses into their chair in frustration, and says "I really hate people!"

It might be because their intoxicated patient keeps pulling out his IV, blood pooling on the floor and dragged all across his sheets. Later he was squatting in the corner, relieving himself on the floor of his room.

It could be because a family member of a patient is particularly demanding, and due to their own fears and frustrations, says angry, biting things to the staff member. It makes it hard to go back into the room.

Sometimes it's because there are just too many patients, who are too sick, and the demands keep rising. Physicians and nurses alike face this as people live longer and have more complex illnesses. It's made worse because administrators keep piling on charting requirements; medical records systems add new time-stamps to track; and nurses, patient care techs, labs techs, respiratory therapists, and all the assorted staff of the hospital are in short supply. To top it off, housekeeping is wildly overworked and underpaid.

Patients can't get discharged because they can't go to nursing homes, or to their own homes due to weakness and infirmity. They lie in the hospital for days or weeks in a perpetual holding pattern, like a commuter flight circling Charlotte.

Other times it's far more painful. The team staggers out the room where they tried to save the child who was beaten to death by an adult. Men and women go to separate corners, cry, scream, and dream of justice.

The car crash, caused by an impaired driver, leaves a young mother paralyzed, a young father near death.

The great-grandmother, doing her best, is raising her great grand-children on virtually no money, because the children's mother and father can't escape fentanyl, or meth, or any other substance.

A fellow staff member berates a colleague. It happens to everyone. I've received my own share of this from other physicians. We are not a monolithic group. Everyone in healthcare is potentially divided by tribe and family. We can be very cruel and our words, which should heal, can cut like #11 scalpels.

After all of this, people say "I hate people, I really do!"

To which I try to reply, "I've seen you take care of patients. If you hated people, you wouldn't do this job. You love people, you just hate the way things are."

Before COVID, during COVID, after COVID, it has always been hard to take care of the sick and dying. There have always been and will always be tragic situations, hateful people, unkind fellow travelers.

All of it takes a toll. The suffering, the wounds, the death, all imprint themselves on our memories and likely onto our DNA.

But to everyone who thinks, in the midst of the fight, "I hate people," I submit that you don't.

Quite the opposite. I think you love people.

If you didn't, you would never be there in the first place, telling us about your hatred. Which is, by the way, just another way of saying that you care enough to keep doing the job even when it's terrible. You're just stretched thin; physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

So, keep the faith brothers and sisters.

The world needs you. Especially the people you think you hate.

You see, I know the work you do.

Hatred doesn't look a thing like that.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/rural/104783?xid=nl_secondopinion_2023-06-04&eun=g2211511d0r

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COMMENT by Charles_Beauchamp  👍
I can vouch as a rural general internist at the pinnacle of the Stroke & Diabetes Belts and the Southern Chronic Poverty Areas in NE NC that:

1) Hospital at Home services are needed;

2) 24 x 7 outpatient call is sometimes impinging on having unconditional regard for patients;

3) Daunting are the forensic aspects of our care for those with Intermittent Explosive Disorder & the ubiquitous availability of guns to settle disputes;

4) Unless cultivated and curated regularly and with "vigah", community pride in helping others can sputter to a standstill;

5) Riding on country roads to do home visits can be very hazardous to one's health, especially at dusk and later during hunting season;

6) Prior authorization of urgently needed medications is more than a major nuisance;

7) Managed (very poorly) Medicaid with four different coverage options in sparsely populated areas = a sign of insanity of the politicians;

8 ) Sham phone call coming in on the clinic number --> wish one could push a button to fry the origin of the robocall

9) The lack of local youth trained & certified to be community health workers and home caregivers = a bad reflection on the school system's inability to give youth the vision and the means of becoming care team players in rural areas.

10) It is very difficult to recruit replacements for ole farte physicians like yours truly in rural areas

11) Lack of help in making needed referrals, transporting patients from the hinterlands to tertiary care centers, arranging ongoing home care....etc = impairment of needed care and increase in unnecessary deaths, especially during the pandemic;

12) disparities in pregnancy outcomes, lack of adequate means of protecting the fetus in its transition to becoming a person, lack of protection of the mother, lack of doulas and ready access to needed care = third world pregnancy outcomes
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