http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1033962,hosp070108.article

Video shows woman dying on psych floor in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat at 5:32 a.m. on June 19, falling face down on the floor.

Beware, watching the video may be very moving…

If it’s worth breaking the law over, it’s worth going to jail for.

Where’s the goddamned pride in these people?

On the Zoo thread yesterday we were talking about the FISA Bill and I wanted to see the research that John Dean had come up with. Just in case you are interested here is the link:
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/index.html

I still haven’t had a chance to read it all yet, plus I need to find the ACLU research on the topic also. It was so poorly written that it has taken days for both to pour through all of it.

I’m still very upset by this issue. I’m hoping Obama is listening to all the upset emails and phone calls he has been getting.

Have a good day Exit Stage Left :)

“It is amazing how the media, particularly the print media, can fail to continually misunderstand the English language. The term, “average” implies has no merit nor demerit.”

Speaking of cleaning up one’s own house the above should read:

“It is amazing how the media, particularly the print media, can continually misunderstand the English language. The term, “average” implies no merit nor demerit…”

I know what you mean, vacation sometimes are just too short. I’m glad you had such a good time. Great Post as always…:)

It is amazing how the media, particularly the print media, can fail to continually misunderstand the English language. The term, “average” implies has no merit nor demerit. It is simply a mathematical term that describes the mid-point on a numbered spectrum. There are just as many below the average as above the average, by definition. The fact that Senator Obama has a home loan with an interest rate below the average rate at the time as do my wife and I conveys only one piece of usable information: we all have interest rates on our respective homes that are below average and nothing else. There are other uneducated Republican fools, (a triple redundancy that will immediately take the statement to mean that Senator Obama received special treatment to obtain something to which he was not entitled. I suggest they clean up their own (White) house before attempting to falsely degrade others.

Good to see you :)

Good to see all of you too! Just back from a blissful week on the California coast, north of San Francisco. No smoke or wildfires, thank goodness. It was so much fun listening to progressive radio since Sacramento lost it’s only station in February. We were able to get green960 there. Wish we could have spent another week there!

When an empathetic person gets a catastrophic illness, they often think of others in the same situation. I suspect that Kennedy has probably always thought of people who have been screwed by our current health care system, but his recent health experiences have probably allowed him to relate to the seriously ill in a way no one else can.

It kind of reminds me of Hubert Humphrey, who had terminal cancer of the bladder. He made himself available for any kind of experimental treatment that anybody wanted to do, because he said that while there was no hope for him, such experimentation might save someone else’s life down the line.

It takes a remarkable person to think of others during dire circumstances.

Hasn’t Johnny boy been rotating women for years?

In the true Republican way go for the richest available woman. You are right on that one Saint Augustine :)

I always wondered what people into S&M did for careers… I think we know where some of them work now.

Talk about rats deserting our sinking ship. At this point, I think the rats are pretty smart.

Good to see you :)

I agree with you. Anything that helps them (Republicans)get richer they are for, and history is living proof of that and so is our current economic climate. You are being far to kind by calling them rats.

So that they aren’t paying them holiday wages, Wal-Mart is forcing full-time employees to work 32 hour weeks, so that the holiday they work, adds up to 40 and they don’t get the holiday pay. Great place to work, huh?

So lemme get this straight. We train our interrogators on “coercive management techniques” that we KNOW result in false confessions. Yet we use them anyway.

Why? Just for the fun of it?

It’s sad that this kind of news, of BIG Corporations milking the middle class for billions, no longer shock me.

And conservatives wonder why we need more government. If only they could actually be the beacons of morality they claim to be…

‘We buy cheap, sell cheap and treat our employees cheap!’