Comments on: The Water We Swim In

By: joe bernstein

joe bernstein — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:01:09 +0000

Didn’t Lupe Ontiveros play in “Selena”?I’m sure it was her and her character was no maid-she portrayed a really nasty/obsessed individual.
She also played a very good role in “El Norte”.
A lot of Latinos in the US don’t speak Spanish at all.

By: ninjanurse

ninjanurse — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:15:35 +0000

I changed my race a few years ago to Celt. The way some people use the word ‘white’ makes me glad I don’t identify that way anymore.

By: sekanblogger

sekanblogger — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:00:12 +0000

This here is the story of the white man versus the HUMAN BEINGS….

By: joe bernstein

joe bernstein — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:08:39 +0000

And no more silly little demeaning caps-they made nurses look like maids on the East Side!!
Sometimes you can’t tell who’s who.I was at West Roxbury VA about 3 years ago and a youngish woman came into my room in a non-specific sort of outfit and introduced herself by her first name and started discussing my problem.I asked if she was a nurse,and she said in a routine way-”nah,I’m the senior resident” like it was no big deal.As informal as you could get.Turns out she wasn’t only an MD,but a Phd in Biochemistry-talk about smart!!And totally unpretentious-the good people usually are(note to Sheldon Whitehouse).

By: ninjanurse

ninjanurse — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:49:38 +0000

Nursing has benefited greatly from feminism. I haven’t sighed ‘yes, doctor’ and batted my eyes even once. This is way better for the patients too.

By: joe bernstein

joe bernstein — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:03:46 +0000

Why do madmen get ahold of guns?You can thank the &*^#$@ ACLU to some large degree.
Because of their insistence on protecting the “rights” of the mentally ill,Mr.Cho was able to legally purchase a firearm,which had his mental health record been available,the dealer would not have sold to him.
It’s not like the mentally ill don’t have rights,but anyone seriously impaired in that way can’t own firearms(and shouldn’t).I know I am frequently at odd with a few social engineers around here on firearms rights,but I don’t want felons,crazies,or illegal aliens running around armed.They are all prohibited from doing so by Federal law.
I don’t know if Mr.Sodini would have set off any alarms-if he never sought any treatment and wasn’t committed involuntarily he wouldn’t have.
I recall that in Canada,which has much tougher gun laws,there was a horrendous massacre of 14 female engineering students at a college in Montreal by a woman hating gunman.He even ignored male students,hunting down the women.He thought thety has “taken his place”.Did he ever think maybe he was just too dumb to get in?
Did you see the news about the woman who slaughtered seven other innocent people,including four children,by driving her car the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway?Turns out she was drunk and high and had refused an offer of a ride by her brother over the phone.
How do we keep drunks out of cars?She had no prior history in any event.And taking away a license doesn’t slow them down for a second.If they run into you at 80 mph,do you really give a damn if their license was revoked?Short of cutting off the hands or blinding DUI offenders,this will happen again and again.BTW I don’t advocate those punishments.
Life is dangerous and no amount of social engineering can change that.
Personally I’d much sooner take my chances with a gunshot wound than be hit head on with another vehicle at highway speed.
As far as Sotomayor,you are making as much of an icon of her as some others are painting her as some kind of radical Trotskyite.She’s a judge with a long record-she’s made some good and some bad decisions in my estimation-nothing that makes her ineligible to serve on the Supreme Court.
But she isn’t a paradigm.No one is,and the sooner you see that,the better.
At one point in my life I kinda idolized some people,but not lately-I got realistic and understood that they all were just humans with all the attendant faults.
FWIW,my wife shares a background extremely similar to Sotomayor’s(only she never wanted nor was offered affrimative action)and she can’t see how Sotomayor’s appointment “empowers”her.She can only empower herself in her opinion.And she’s had a good and rewarding career and a good experience as a mother and now a grandma (soon to be another addition)and needs no one else to validate her.
I’m sure you got where you did on your own.I think nurses can be a hell of a lot more important than judges.