Hmmm....no comments.  Too bad. 

The meeting was "interesting" there were some real disruptors spewing lies, shouting, not waiting their turn to ask questions, or comment.  They got there very early so as to insure getting in the room and having a space in the front. 

There are few tribes more loathsome than the American right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama´s attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.

Actually, as a recent ex-smoker, I think I have a unique insite on this problem.  Smokers just don´t realize how offensive their smoke is to others who don´t smoke.   Now when I take a walk/ breath/ smell the air breaks, instead of smoke breaks, being confronted by a cloud of used tobacco smoke is not pleasant.  Some smokers are considerate, but many are not.  They just can´t smell things with the same intensity as none smokers, so they don´t know what they are doing.

If anyone has not been looking, there is a big healthcare debate going on in the USA now.  I´ll be going to a Town Hall meeting in a hour or so to listen, and perhaps offer an opinion.

I´m curious about the health care options in other countries.  Are alternative treatments possible with the health care of your country?  By alternative, I mean acupuncture, chiropracty or other types of treatments.  I was amazed to find acupuncture is not allowed in the US Medicare or Medicaid.  How about your country?

Affordable Healthcare in the USA

 ....FYI....it´s called "Wry Humor"

 .............and this is the lady who was complaining about smokers????  Cigars no less

Excellent article.  Ward Churchill´s work is respected in the Native American community.  Thank you for copying and posting it here. 

"The Rocky Mountain News, in 2005, published a genealogy of Churchill, and reported "no evidence of a single Indian ancestor" [of Churchill´s]. The News reports that both of Churchill´s birth parents are listed as white on the 1930 census, as are all of his other known ancestors on previous censuses and other official documents.[27] The Denver Post´s genealogical investigation resulted in the same conclusion."

It was actually not at all unusual to NOT register a Native American as Indian, but register them as white, that way territorial claimes were eliminated.  It´s an old trick that is still going on.  Actually there are many tribes aren´t even recognized today.

Yes, it is undeniably a great tragedy.  Is there anyone who truly does not recognize it?  The issue is, what can be done about it?  At the very least, a great sense of shame should be felt by all......and yes it was because they were not Christians that such actions were felt to have been justified.  Who knows what knowledge was lost  by the destruction of the codices?

 Well my dear, I can well clean a fish...(if I must)  More than that, I know what leaf, seeds, roots and plants to eat and what ones to stay away from.....as well as which ones treat what....how to start fire, collect water & render it potable, make shelter....and I´m a tree hugging LIBERAL!

 ????...............how on earth did you come to that conclusion?????...............no my dear, there is a whole chain of events leading to different results...each important in it´s own way.

 Yes, I agree with much of what you say.  Each case is unique.  Ted Bundy was in a whole other class.  He was a psychopath.

"In 1965, Bundy graduated from Woodrow Wilson High. Awarded a scholarship by the University of Puget Sound (UPS), he began that fall taking courses in psychology and Oriental studies. After two semesters at UPS, he decided to transfer to Seattle´s University of Washington (UW).

While he was a university student, Bundy worked as a grocery bagger and shelf-stocker at a Seattle Safeway store on Queen Anne Hill, as well as other odd jobs. As part of his course of studies in psychology, he would later work as a night-shift volunteer at Seattle´s Suicide Hot Line, a suicide crisis center that served the greater Seattle metropolitan and suburban areas. He met and worked alongside former Seattle policewoman and fledgling crime writer Ann Rule, who would later write a biography of Bundy and his crimes, The Stranger Beside Me."

I  think we should step lightly. Sometimes we do not really understand how to be kind.  We stomp through the forrest with thick boots tramping through the brush, breaking branches (and life contained in it) underneath our feet. 

All I´m saying is maybe if we "Try a little tenderness" it can help.

 .........and landmines don´t explode until agitated in some way....