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on Sealing the Cracks in Foster Care
Does DHS make the biological parents take parenting classes and teach them the laws?
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Sealing the Cracks in Foster Care
Does DHS teach the children their rights and the laws against child abuse so that the child cannot be bamboozled through fear and intimidation?
So that the child can self report to the DHS supervisor about what is going right and or wrong?
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on Sealing the Cracks in Foster Care
Does DHS make the parents take parenting lessons? And lessons on the laws against child abuse?
Does DHS teach them positive parenting skills? Tell them that punishment does not work?
In other words, is anything being done to prevent problems?
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Live from Salem
I tend to think that it is better to address this problem through education towards prevention.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Live from Salem
Sobriety checkpoints
We already have enough of a police state, we don't need to take it any further.
Invading everybodys' privacy to catch a few who are doing wrong is offensive to the rights of the many.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Life Review
Good point and you remind me of the old timey ideas of keeping a diary or journaling each day. Only now there are more options to do that, even twittering to oneself, I guess, and saving a copy of those tweets.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Life Review
I read your question in essence as "Do souls exist separately from the body?"
I think it is a fun question but I also realize that just because a person can think up a question, does not mean that an answer exists for that question.
How would you test for an answer? What experiment can you think of to try and get a yes or no?
What would be acceptable evidence for an answer?
I just don't see any way to address the question in reality.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Life Review
I wish that I could have asked my mom about what her dreams were, and what her mother had been like as her family went through WW2 adn the Korean War.
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on Life Review
I think that this one of the things we lose through technology.
Before radios, tvs, and the modern stuff, people had to deal with, relate to each other, and often the kids would be around while the elders told stories of who, what, and when, absorbing those stories of family history just by being in the same home with the rest of their family.
And that would have been very effective in the days of extended families living in the same home, babies, children, parents, grandparents, unmarried brothers and sisters.
I suggest that there is a huge cost to technology, and debited from our relationships. Like Sherry Turkle says, we ought to shut it off sometimes and relate to and with each other.
Way back when, they often had to entertain themselves, gathering around the family piano, or just sing and tell stories together. I remember my family driving down the AlCan highway in the late 1950s with no radio stations at all for many hundreds of miles and we sang all kinds of old songs that our parents had learned in their youth. How many families sing together while travelling now? What have we lost?
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on Life Review
When my mom died the only thing that I chose to keep out of all her things was a book of photos that her mother had created by cutting up paper bags and sewing the pages together with a leather lace. That book had very old photographs of grandmothers parents and grandparents and I wanted to get relatives to identify them in each photo. I wanted those very old stories, like my grandmother had come across the Oregon trail.
When I went traveling I gave it to a sister for safekeeping and then a cousin borrowed it to copy the photos but when I asked her to return it she said she did not have it. ( Her family had a history of stealing things from others in our family).
I was heartbroken about losing that part of my family's history.
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on The Role of Protesting
"Therefore, I think these groups and their politicians should have their patriotism questioned. They're acting more like enemies of the people and agents of those powerful corporate forces that threaten to destroy our quality of life. "
That's right.
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on The Role of Protesting
You have more support than you realize, and all over the world.
It's like I reminded a friend of mine when his kid was going into surgery, there are those Tibetan Buddhists and monks constantly spinning thgeir prayer wheels and flying those prayer flags, there are all those Catholics lighting candles and kneeling and praying, there are all those muslims praying five times a day, all those jewish peoples, protestants, Atheists, hindus, and every other group of people who work and or pray for the health and welfare of all of the people in the world, and we even have it written into our constitution "to promote the "general welfare" of our nation.
It is my belief that most of the people in the world are doing the best they can and want the best for all of the peoples in the world, and I invite you to think about that and remind your daughters of that.
When you are down, most of the people in the world have your back, it just isn't always obvious. So keep your candle lit, yours is needed along with all of our others.
And I dedicate this post to my two sisters, my mom, my sister in law, my niece, all of the men and all others who have supported Planned Parenthood and the ERA.
Um, and you and your family have joined in the great history of protestors like Gandhi, our US founders, the French revolutionaries, that guy in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square, Egypt, Iran, and all others.
Congratulations, you guys have courage and heart.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on The Role of Protesting
"funded and promoted by corporate billionaires"
Ayup!
And with well funded wordsmith Frank Luntz doing the research on finding words that will make "drinking the Kool-Aid' acceptable to a lot of Americans and get them to vote against their own interests, families, and jobs.
The average Conservative Republican is "Boobus Americanus" and the Conservative Republican elites are making a killing off of fooling and fear-mongering them into submissive compliance.
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on The Role of Protesting
The protests in the Middle East are all against Conservative "small governments", against kings, dictators, presidents for life, family dynasties, strongman thugs, etc.
That fact ought to wake up Americans who have been fooled and lied to into voting for Conservative Republicans in the US. Those governments have been supported by American Conservative Republicans like the Washington, DC, group which calls themselves The Family, which was investigated and talked about on Fresh Air.
Those governments are what Conservative leaders really mean when they talk about the virtues of "small government".
Remember that Dick Cheney worked to create GW Bush as "The Unitary Executive", ruling through issuing Executive Orders and ignoring the Congress and the Supreme court? Well, Unitary Executive is apparently a euphemism for strongman dictator, isn't it.
The people in the Middle East don't like their Conservative governments and we Americans didn't like our version of it either, but it has raised its' ugly head again in Wisconsin and other Midwest states.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on The Role of Protesting
The Tea Party is so phony, they are protesting against the problems that they created! When are they going to take responsibility for the problems they caused? When are they going to vote against Conservatism?
Sheesh.
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on The Role of Protesting
- Jeffery Reynolds: Chairman of Multnomah County Republican Party
This guest is prevaricating! (Lying!)
Back when TOTN had discussion boards, there was a Conservative Republican poster named Harry Holmquist who told us what the Conservative Republican strategies are. One strategy is to drive the government so deeply into debt that they have to cut all social services and get rid of the Public Schools systems and get rid of Teachers Unions and other Public Unions.
And their strategy is working. Even a moderate Democrat like Kitzhaber is forced into into social services.
Shakespeare wrote something like "methinks he doth protest too much" about a person who was getting what he wanted but wanted to look like he wasn't getting what he wanted.
Poor poor Jeffrey, his strategy is working and working very well in driving our government into debt and he has to pretend that it is not.
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on Meth Laws: Five Years Later
Thanks for clearing that up, rethomas.
I didn't know about meth in WW2, but I guess I should not be surprised.
Now I wonder what mental alertness drugs our military uses and if they might be used as substitutes for current meth addicts to help them get off meth. Sort of like methadone for herion addicts.
And of course college students would like them for those all night cram sessions.
And what about as replacements for coffee? I'd think that business would pick that up, big time, like Starbucks, etc.
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on Meth Laws: Five Years Later
It takes courage to care.
And caring is what makes a better world.
Like my old aunt told me, "god is love".
'Nuff said.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Meth Laws: Five Years Later
One of the problems with legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco is that the governments are also addicted to them in the form of taxes to run the governments, so if you are going to effectively reduce the harm, you are also going to have to effectively reduce the tax revenues.
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