Overnight Parking–Providence City Council
From all the fuss on the internets I thought there would be a crowd at City Hall where a plan for citywide resident permit parking was on the agenda. I went to a very crowded and contentious meeting several years ago where the Summit Neighborhood Association had scores of people lined up to oppose resident [...]
It’s So Hurtful
I’m taking a lunch break at Stop and Shop, using their network and checking out my stats and my friend’s blogs. Or trying to. Nomi’s blog, ‘I Dreamed I Saw Grace P. Today’ is forbidden on this network. Likewise ‘Echidne of the Snakes’. Has Nomi spent too much time hanging out with ‘Jesus’ General’? The [...]
Obama is the Antichrist–What Else is New?
CrooksAndLiars says that a heckler screamed, ‘Obama you are the Antichrist’ as the president spoke at a fundraising event in Los Angeles. To a former Pentecostal, like this writer, the heckler’s outburst is unsurprising. It would be shocking if the extreme Christian right did not declare Obama to be the Antichrist. I’m not a Biblical [...]
Banned Books Week
Thanks to friend Nomi for a reminder that once again, it’s Banned Books Week! There’s a cool map of censorship actions, with blue balloons marking the locations. I thought Rhode Island was a beacon of freedom, and, with the exception of some school officials who got cranky in Cumberland, we are. Here’s the top ten [...]
Pope Benedict Hears it in German
What was it like to hear the truth in his own native language? Pope Benedict XVI met victims of sexual abuse by clergy on the second day of his visit to his German homeland, an encounter that left him “deeply shaken”, Vatican officials said. … During a 30-minute meeting with abuse victims in Erfurt, the [...]
Ugly Questions for Ron Paul
I thought Dr.Paul might have been a little mis-understood, when some Tea drinkers at the Republican debate cheered the death of the hypothetical uninsured 30 year old man. But TPM quotes him confirming his philosophy that health care should be completely privatized, and regulations are just bad for business–herbs and charity will fill the need. [...]
Dispatches from the Bunker
Something very silly but made me laugh this morning. From Bill in Portland, Maine via Daily Kos… “Morning, Al.” “Morning, Mr. Perkins, sir!” “So the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy has been off the books for a full day. What are you hearing from your operatives in the field? Is it as bad as we [...]
Re-name Old Crisis to get a Nifty New One
Wow! ‘Alarm Fatigue’. A new buzzword! Did we need another buzzword, or would some boring old word describe this situation better… WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) – UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester is stepping up efforts to prevent nurses from tuning out monitor warning alarms following the death of a patient whose alarms signaling a fast [...]
5,000 Nurses in Ten Years
That’s the estimate of what Rhode Island will need for the health care work force. A new charter school is focused on vocational training… PROVIDENCE – They are the nurses of the future in a classroom setting that’s unique. The Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College, a new charter school in Providence, opened Monday with [...]
Divorce, Alzheimer’s and Pat Robertson
So why is anything Pat Robertson says worth listening to? He has been spouting hateful nonsense for years– reliably blaming the latest natural disaster on the gays, the feminists, the pagans. He makes wack predictions about who is on God’s hit list, and the Lord continually fails to come through with tsunamis on the West [...]
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