Nice lady can't afford a mammogram ?

TV news was interviewing Americans hit suddenly by hard times.

    You don't need the imagination of Charles Dickens to picture their

    daily challenges. One lady -perhaps comfortably and safely middle

    class- had lost her health insurance. " I can't afford a mammogram ",

    she said. Every hospital in the country should be available to this

    woman - and millions more without health insurance. And without

    pitiful pleas for help. This truth should sink into the moral

    consciousness of America: Health care is human right!

                How odd that car insurance is compulsory but the very

    idea of a national health care plan raises conservative eye brows.

               It is impractical to think health care can be absolutely

    FREE for everybody. But we can begin  by making it more affordable

    for everybody. The one truly GREAT Kennedy,  Senator Ted, has been

    keeping this idea alive. God bless him for it !

              Most medical doctors see themselves as professionals-not

    plastic hearted shop keepers. The GOOD doctor is eager to help

    sick people get well again -whatever their economic status.

                I believe a national health care plan will also

    eliminate the terror of nasty law suits.

               And nobody who ends up in a hospital accident room

    should be rudely quizzed - while in a high anxiety state of

    mind -about their financial resources.

                  " What, no blue cross ? I guess you'll just have

    to drop dead ! "

KIDS IN PRISON on Discovery Channel

 Ask the whole world: HAVE YOU NO SHAME ? That's what I

    thought while watching a Discovery Channel documentary- a world-wide

    perspective on kids in prison, in Texas, in Britain, in Russia, in

    Brazil ( most horrible of all ! ). This is indeed the stuff for a

    United Nations report, for Amnesty International.

              Not for nothing I decided more than 20 years ago that

    I never want to bring children into this abominable little world !

          You do not need a PHD in sociology to see the common denominator

    in their lives ( with few exceptions ): They had wickedness to choose

    ignorant paupers for parents !

                One kid says : " If I'm living on the street -and I don't

    steal- I'll starve ! ".  But he promises his crying -dying - old

    mother ( prematurely old ? ) that he'll be a GOOD BOY when he gets

    out of that hell.

               How does their society attempt to REFORM them ? By pure

    terror, fear of  AUTHORITY (" You forget to say SIR, punk ! " )

           To SIR with love : Get a life. Too bad for you to miss out

    on the Nazi thing !

              All the other people who deal with these kids -if not

    evil and well intentioned - look like comfortable, well fed,

    petty bourgeois bureaucrats -with hearts of pure plastic.

              How many of these kids have a future in terrorism ?

Praise R.I. Congressmen on Cianci help

I like Arlene Violet but I can only praise our Rhode

    congressmen, Kennedy and Langevin, for trying to help our " Buddy "

    find a constrained residence closer to home and to his troubled

    daughter. EQUALITY for me does not mean equality in meanness.

               Just because there is great injustice in our prison

    system, that is no excuse to treat  relatively privileged persons

    with undue meanness -when they fall from grace.

                 The Cianci trial was more blunder-dome than plunder-dome.

    Just how much did " Buddy " steal and where did the money go ? Facts

    and figures count for something in the world of science. I guess the

    LAW is rather womanish, emotions decide the fate of people.

            As for Cianci's relationship with his daughter, family matters

    are not easily or fairly judged by outsiders. LOVE is often two-faced

    and ambivalent. The LAW does not recognize HUMANITY anymore. It has

    become an inhuman punishing machine crushing millions of lives.

               The LAW is an ass !

Egyptian TV and a mummified prejudice

Without seeing an English language version of the controversial

    Egyptian TV drama - which, they say, gives a certain credibility

    to a mummified prejudice, that there is a Jewish conspiracy to dominate

    the world - I cannot  condemn it. But I know this much about American

    TV: it rots the brain and corrupts the soul. I guess everywhere the

    damn boob tube is busy 24 hours of the day making monkeys out of

    human beings.

               Here is a possible location for the international Jewish

    conspiracy: the public library. I cannot fail to observe that Jews

    read more books and write more books than other people. By ridding

    the world of the " Jewish conspiracy ", civilization will be the

    loser, and humanity in general all but lobotomized.

              Here is a Darwinian explanation for the " clever Jew " :

    If  a people is hounded for centuries - how else should you treat

    Christ killers ?  - the clever ones are more likely to survive

    and teach the tricks of  the trade to threatened kin.

             I'm still trying to figure out why people think Communism

    was a Jewish conspiracy.  An alternative plan to rule the world ?

    But what ingenious flexibility !