Hello there. I'm not certain what I want to say, but there are a few things that bother me today. For one thing, I am ill -- and, secondly, I do not have any money left over after I pay my bills -- and the issues bother me more while they build more and more momentum. Everyone thinks that if they had a few hundred dollars a month, and didn't have to work, they would be "so" happy. Well, I am not going to be silent any more.

These people, however, don't know what it is like to be so sick that you cannot get out of bed without laying down due to serious illness. I would be so happy to exchange bodies with them -- and feel like doing something -- anything! Good move by President Obama for calling emergency money for families ill from the flu. As a teacher, I got sick EVERY YEAR from grading papers. The kids wipe their noses across their faces, and their assignments are like deadly weapons by the time I get them. 

You see, I am tired and don't feel well. That's because I have heard so much crap in the last year from rude, Jerry-Springer-type, ... no Jerry Springer "reject"republicans, whose words and actions remind me of Linda Blair's performance in The Exorcist where she spew green mucous while her head was spinning around. I'm steaming although I know that they really think they are kidding everyone with their spiteful actions and words. 

These old guys need to get with the new century. We the people are an educated people, a decent people and a proud people. "Avoidance" leads to other mental problems and they all need some psychiatric counselling. 

We need to get out of Afghanistan and pursue the rebuilding of our economy -- and the people in Afghanistan can take care of their own cities, regions, dessert, etc. They expect us to take care of them now. I didn't know we we really at war with a country -- and that is because we are not fighting a country. WE ARE POLICING IT!! 

Yeah, we've studied and we are an educated country! That means all of your tricks do no work on us anymore. I remember a Senator I knew years ago who was crazy about me, and he was a decent man. What ever happened to men like that, ones that would never be so rude and full of duplicity and audacity? 

Sarah Palin is hoping to get her hands on the next bailout on Wall Street. Yeah, right! You know that she cannot answer a direct question, unlike her predecessors billions of dollars so that she can buy her family a new wardrobe. But -- people will ignore that little shopping trip she went on because that is what we do ... we act like their is no "elephant" in the damned living room. I heard that the republicans wanted something the other day -- and I know that they will want whatever President Obama doesn't want.

I truthfully believe that they would not do "anything" he wants to do. He should be use reverse psychology on them. What makes me even madder is that the "democrats" do not agree with him. What I'd like to know is what kind of smoke and screen shows have you been learning from because e your tricks don't fool anyone. You all act like the little boys who are trying to do a magic show -- and then you boldly and stupidly just bring the rabbit from behind your back and say " uh ... em ... abracadabra" and squirm in your suits from the knowledge that everyone saw every little move and strategy in the books.

Most people who work on a degree must take a lot of liberal arts, science, philosophy, etc. Now when these old guys get together, all I see are the old men on my corner trying to pick up a girl who isn't all that great looking -- but it is the obviousness that they are flirting because they know she wouldn't give anyone of them the time of day -- much less the night. But they whistle because she's relatively safe to flirt with for that very reason.

In sociology, ethics, philosophy, psychology and science 101 classes, even the ones I took 20 years ago and had to repeat later at my new school, I learned all the basics. These guys act like they do not have to answer a direct question -- and people will vote for them anyway. I DONNOT THINK SO! Hell, do these people really believe that Americans from even the poorest neighborhoods are highly educated. I knew lots of teachers and nurses from my neighborhoods when I was a kid. Many of the generation before my own did not have any college, and that is why they are having such a difficult time finding work, one of the reasons. We know what you really are!   Not one of you is fit to be a Senator if you Ask Me. 

Maybe then, they will agree with him on something. My theory stems from the way they all got away with accepting bribes millions of dollars from big insurance companies -- and maybe even from drug companies. This whistle blower story that aired on CNN and on a radio talk show told everyone in the country about the bribes -- oh, wait, wait, wait, let's call it lobbying by special interest groups and then donating e to the senators and legislators, including Senate Finance Committee members. What is the difference between accepting favors or campaign money, and taking money for a seat in the Senate? 

About Afghanistan: The world is very very small speck in the universe to me today. That is from my high and mighty seat above the rain -- yes rain. Don't you look up at the drops sometimes and see the drop like huge pellets falling toward your face. Now, step it up and look down at those drops, focusing on one of them all the way down. That is harder to do than looking up at them. Well, that is because as we all know, raindrops don't kill. Neither do our troops. They patrol the streets and keep order, and they patrol or comb the outer regions of Afghanistan. Why not set them straight about what this war is supposed to be about.

We need to get this war on with the war planes striking the mountains and help people exile from their homes and into some cities where we can check their ID, and let the cannons marshal on. Hopefully, hitting a few things with those bullets. We are not even using planes or any other scary things. We are tap-dancing around the entire country and wasting our money and manpower in order for them to have life as normal as possible to go to the voting polls or into certain towns -- without any signs of real fighting because that would maybe make them bear the brunt of the war THAT IS NOT REALLY A NORMAL WAR!!! 

We will never have any of these young men who are idolizing the bad guys over there. The reason is simple: Deductive Reasoning.If they were 8 years old when we arrived there, then they are 16 years old now -- and they have had enough time to decide which side they want to be on in this war. Why would they want to b like us when we seem weak and stupid to them. What else can they conclude?

By the way, if we gave every state a hospital at 2 billion dollars a piece, at 750 billion dollar bailout money, we could have 350 new hospitals in America for all of the states. Then we would be building the infrastructure that could make a real profit for themselves. That is something that we could use to give people better qualities of life and better health in the process. There is the only way to "insure everyone." 

I say why not? A high class hospital for each region that accepts every insurance. The government can insist on taking some of the profit for being part of the plan somehow. Well, I've said what I could tonight. I'm too sick to walk or sit up today. Let the country's sick and mentally challenged have a first class health center everywhere. If not, we will begin having the childhood illnesses like those of other countries. The birth defects and babies born with AIDS don't get a truthful view of the way we will end up if we don't have health care.  This video reminds me that real money can't buy good healthy people, but what is the alternative? 

Yes, yes, yes ... our world has certainly changed from a place where many people are fooled to believe a person deserves an award for making peace by a long list of achievements, much like those posted on a resume, to a world where most decent educated people recognize the actions and demeanor of a man who not only aspires to bring peace to the world, but also one who has already brought about peace in America. 

Uniting a country once full of racial hatred, President Barack Obama asked the country to believe in "change" from a man who was biracial -- and whose name sounded like a terrorist. Nevertheless, he set out to do it without accepting money from special interest groups, which scared his opposition to death, and made enemies for him with many bribe-accepting-corrupt-politicians ... and big companies that could not lobby him. 

Winning the election, though, was the biggest battle ever won in the US for several hundred years if you ask me, and what may seem like nothing to a white republican with a rich father, but it counted to me and a lot of other voters. He did more in order to become president than any other candidate has ever done before -- any democrat for that matter. He had all of the odds against him, and it was not easy, but he did it with tact, diplomacy and manners.

Yes, President Obama certainly has surpassed another Nobel Peace Prize winner, Martin Luther King, who won by proving that non-violence is the only assurance of true peace. In fact, according to the Nobel Prize website, King didn't step out of the country, and yet he made it possible for the world to see "that the road he and his people charted may bring a ray of hope to other parts of the world, a hope that conflicts between races, nations, and political systems can be solved, not by fire and sword, but in a spirit of true brotherly love."

On election night, if the faces didn't interweave a new patchwork as to the identity of the real Americans within our borders, ones whose prejudices and pride had been put aside in a common goal and a new hope for America and all of humanity -- then I pity them. All of these people believed in an African American man, but it was not the outer appearance they embraced in him as a common thread. It was his soul and the eternal light of God's love they saw in him. 

At that moment in time, his very presence, along with his words about hard work, courage, and the changes that had already taken place in history, became living proof that love, courage and hard work can bring about change and unity in a country, where years ago it would have been impossible for him to become the President of The United States of America.

President Obama brought smiles and tears of joy to the American "melting pot" of blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, disabled, young, old, Christians, Jews, Muslims -- and many other ethnic or religious groups present that night ... and to those of us who watched on TV from home, or at a local pub surrounded by friends. Likewise, all over the world, people were watching in awe at the "glimmer of light" that Martin Luther King had only mentioned, yet went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for simple words of hope. Truth and peace do not require a list of accolades to a true believer. Actions speak louder than words sometimes.

Yes, this young exuberant and peaceful half black man (with the worst name for a presidential candidate ever), Barack Hussein Obama, had won the hearts and minds of many different people, who under any other circumstances might never have assembled together shoulder to shoulder in peaceful unity. That defining moment in history had to bring about a new hope for peace between nations, and give new democracies proof that elections can bring about change for the common good -- which is what Obama travels around the world to emphasize.

Also, the president's extended hand has become a symbol for many world leaders who heard his speech. Unfortunately, it has apparently infuriated a few people here in our country who didn't like it when President Obama reached out to shake hands with Hugo Chavez. I saw the actions of a man who is not afraid to reunite with former allies turned enemies during the Bush administration, or any other former foes. I saw him acting out his promise to those who will unclench their fists and shake his hand in the name of peace.  That was the right thing to do! 

Now that his enemies have begun their usual banter, and have thrown their childish fits in hope that he will give it back, or many who would have him disqualified for not having enough of their own kind of acceptable accomplishments under his belt. However, his accomplishments began the day he realized people would treat him differently once they found out he was half white, or even half black. He overcame many obstacles and has tried to demonstrate the kind of person he is without "name calling" and without listening to the "haters." It's hard enough to mend the scars with the Republicans, and they have not shown any class ever since he took office. Yes, living in America as a black boy from a white mother qualifies as a major accomplishment to put under his belt to me and a whole lot of other people, or so it seems. 

Since he won the presidency, Obama has already been to more countries than any other American president to spread his message of peace.Not only that, but Obama knows that nuclear weapons pose a threat to the world. His kind of peace is a world where we are all accountable to help one another in terms of economic growth, and in terms of putting pressure on a country by joining together in an effort to resolve the situation peaceably.. It may be that is because everyone knows that this is the only peaceful way to stop the spread of communism. It is too late to worry about who has the most weapons when it comes to saving our planet, and by uniting with other world leaders and preventing every country's economy from failing,. he has also made it clear that not only the US is responsible for the debt, but that the other healthy economies are responsible for helping the poor. 

President Obama sends a clear message to every country that "he comes in peace, but will not tolerate a country or leader who wants to build nuclear weapons." that is definitely a strong, bold statement for any leader to make when Iran and North Korea may be building nuclear weapons of mass destruction in a world that cannot sustain all of its people already. Obama has shown that his intentions lie in peaceful answers, and makes it clear that they are the only answers to combat complete destruction of our planet. 

Anyone who thinks he disqualifies because he hasn't gone out to fight in the trenches of poor countries, doesn't even know what the trenches of the poor inner cities are like until they are in the ones in Chicago, or Detroit, or in any number of cities where thousands of kids go to school hungry everyday. No he hasn't saved the entire world, or met with all of the world leaders on their soil yet, but don't worry ... he will. 

Only the foolish people who hear rumors devised to scare everyone about health-care reform, need to know that the stories about Obama stealing money from Medicare in order to pay for health care were made up by jealous republicans who are accepting millions of dollars from drug companies to make you do all of their work and get out and make fools of yourselves. Look at the peace we would have in the world if everyone acted like the congressman who yelled out, "you lie" at the president  during a senate meeting while President Obama was speaking. I know it went seemingly unnoticed by Obama, but I hope you do not think he didn't notice. On another note, though, I hate to tell you this, he is not worried about your clever attempts to make him loose his composure. He answers to a higher authority ... even as president. We all do. He just makes it seem so effortless, and that is the peace that gives Americans a secure and wonderful feeling about our country, especially when we know whose hands it is in. 

Our children and many adults aspire to be as poised as President Obama is in times of bigotry and hatred directed at him. If only the entire world handled themselves as well: We would not need bombs anymore. 

You must all notice that Obama doesn't stoop to their levels and threaten violence with violence. His peaceful demonstrations of how Americans must put up with things they don't like to hear once in awhile, like we all do in a country that allows free speech, is nothing new to President Obama; however, his "haters" later complained that he didn't storm out of a meeting -- because one Latin American world leader was putting down America. That is because President Obama demonstrates what kind of patience we learn while we allow others the right to "free speech." Wasn't that action more like the "sound of peace" than a slamming door? 

Moreover, he demonstrates what accountability means in a global effort to help the poor by calling on the world leaders to chip in and help out too after major disasters leave others homeless around the world. He has passed the buck, which asks more from our allies who have depended on the US to pay for everything for far too long, and they applauded him ... not as loud as usual, but it didn't sway them from shaking his hand later. They learned to respect this gentleman who won the presidency without promising anything to anyone but the constituents, ones who sent him the money he needed for his campaign. 

The good people of the world do not need this Nobel Peace Prize explained to them. It is about the quality, the reach, and the determination a person makes to let the world "see a glimmer of hope" for peace, and that is what makes President Barack Obama an honorable winner of the prestigious Nobel Prize for Peace. So, please stop asking yourself if he deserves it, and please stop inciting violence over everything he does to promote peace "his way." Now that you know that the bullying is not going to be tolerated ... you can stop throwing all your hissy-fits and show some respect for your president because believe me when I say, "You bet he deserved it!" 

That is past tense.The show is over, and there is no need to prove, or live up to anything more. Our President should be fully supported by now, and he should exhale with the knowledge that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize ... and that his countrymen and women are happy about it! John McCain was happy for him -- and McCain has shown full support for "his president."

Those who are finding the most fault with President Obama get paid to do radio shows that cause controversy. I don't know what is wrong with the rest of these republicans, but their disrespect and outward show of rudeness is beyond infantile. 

Well, I am saying it again. Yes, yes, yes!  You all know I am ecstatic about it for him! Love and Peace,  Stormy  Shea

I lived in Venezuela in 1971, and I saw the deplorable conditions of the poor who lived in make-shift shanties all up and down the other side of the south mountain, where kids had to climb up and down the steep mountainside all day to carry heavy buckets of water, food, and waste to their families and older family members who could not do it themselves. The kids had no shoes, the babies had no diapers, and you could see the illness and depression of the sick..Many people here have no idea how cruelly your predecessors treated these people. In fact, i have read extensively about the reluctance of doctors, who went on strike rather than treat the poor. Americans have no idea how your relationship with Castro helped the sick people of Venezuela by volunteering to help by sending doctors who were more than "willing" to travel to Venezuela and live in the same areas as those in unsanitary conditions without plumbing or electricity.

You did the right thing and I hope you do not let me and the rest of the world down by becoming a dictator that many people here already believe you to be. our citizens know nothing about the years of revolt and revolutions Venezuela has gone through over the last hundred years alone.

The important things I would like to focus on that you have done includes giving equality to all humans,  God given rights that include a right to an education, a right to health-care, and a right to liberty, and the many, many rights you have put into the law, not only to protect the people, but also the rights of the world's natural resources just to name a few of those things you guarantee all Venezuelans. in fact, the rights you gave to the land and forestry to preserve the ecosystems by writing that into the "Constitution of Venezuela too. 

I believe that the attempted coup on you was a plan instituted by angry oil companies who didn't want to pay for the clean up of the destruction they were leaving behind after drilling in one of the richest prime forestry with hundreds of species that would surely be gone by now if you had not stepped up to defend lone of the "world's richest prime forestry in the world. 

You have also given rights to workers and made laws to them that ended slave labor and gave rights to employees that are more humane than many developed countries in the world right now. Of course, mostly I commend you for fighting and going to any length to assure that your people received medical help, housing with plumbing and electricity, and the right to a free world class education that includes colleges that students must be prepared and disciplined to earn their place in society that an education extends to all. . 

I hope you are not offended that I am posting a portion of your "Constitution of Venezuela" that you proposed and had enacted by a democratic process.I wish you all of the blessings you deserve. 

This is a part of the New Constitution desperately needed in Venezuela to ensure democracy and a life full of promise and a future to every Venezuelan regardless of class, race, religion, etc. I am skipping to Chapter VI:

Culture and Educational Rights
Article 98: Cultural creation is free. This freedom includes the right to invest in, produce and disseminate the creative, scientific, technical and humanistic work, as well as legal protection of the author's* rights in his works. The State recognizes and protects intellectual property rights in scientific, literary and artistic works, inventions, innovations, trade names, patents, trademarks and slogans, in accordance with the conditions and exceptions established by law and the international treaties executed and ratified by the Republic in this field.
Article 99: Cultural values are the unrenounceable property of the Venezuelan people and a fundamental right to be encouraged and guaranteed by the State, efforts being made to provide the necessary conditions, legal instruments, means and funding. The autonomy of the public administration of culture is recognized, on such terms as may be established by law. The State guarantees the protection and preservation, enrichment, conservation and restoration of the cultural tangible and intangible heritage and the historic memories of the nation. The assets constituting the cultural heritage of the nation are inalienable, not subject to distrait or to statute of limitations. Penalties and sanctions for damage caused to these assets shall be provided for by law.
Article 100: The folk cultures comprising the national identity of Venezuela enjoy special attention, with recognition of and respect for intercultural relations under the principle of equality of cultures. Incentives and inducements shall be provided for by law for persons, institutions and communities which promote, support, develop or finance cultural plans, programs and activities within the country and Venezuelan culture abroad. The State guarantees cultural workers inclusion in the Social security system to provide them with a dignified life, recognizing the idiosyncrasies of cultural work, in accordance with law.
Article 101: The State guarantees the issuance, receiving and circulation of cultural information. The communications media have the duty of assisting in the dissemination of the values of folk traditions and the work of artists, writers , composers*, motion-picture directors*, scientists* and other creators* of culture of the country. The television media shall include subtitles and translation into Venezuelan sign language for persons with hearing problems. The terms and modalities of these obligations, shall be established by law.
Article 102: Education is a human right and a fundamental social duty; it is democratic, free of charge and obligatory. The State assumes responsibility for it as an irrevocable function of the greatest interest, at all levels and in all modes, as an instrument of scientific, humanistic and technical knowledge at the service of society. Education, is a public service, and is grounded on the respect for all currents of thought, to the end of developing the creative potential of every human being and the full exercise of his or her personality in a democratic society based on the work ethic value and on active, conscious and joint participation in the processes of social transformation embodied in the values which are part of the national identity, and with a Latin American and universal vision. The State, with the participation of families and society, promotes the process of civic education in accordance with the principles contained in this Constitution and in the laws.
Article 103: Every person has the right to a full, high-quality, ongoing education under conditions and circumstances of equality, subject only to such limitations as derive from such persons own aptitudes, vocation and aspirations. Education is obligatory at all levels from maternal to the diversified secondary level. Education offered at State institutions is free of charge up to the undergraduate university level. To this end, the State shall make a priority investment in accordance with United Nations recommendations. The State shall create and sustain institutions and services sufficiently equipped to ensure the admission process, ongoing education and program completion in the education system. The law shall guarantee equal attention to persons with special needs or disabilities, and to those who have been deprived of liberty or do not meet the basic conditions for admission to and continuing enrollment in the education system. The contributions of private individuals to public education programs at the secondary and university levels shall be tax deductible in accordance with the pertinent law.
Article 104: Persons of recognized good moral character and proven academic qualifications shall be placed in charge of education. The State shall encourage them to remain continuously up to date, and shall guarantee stability in the practice of the teaching profession, whether in public or private institutions, in accordance with this Constitution and the law, with working conditions and a standard of living commensurate with the importance of their mission. Admissions, promotion and continued enrollment in the education system shall be provided for by law, and shall be responsive to evaluation criteria based on merit, to the exclusion of any partisan or other nonacademic interference.
Article 105: The professions requiring a degree and the conditions that must be met to practice them, including, professional organization membership, shall be determined by law.
Article 106: Every natural or juridical person, subject, to demonstration of its ability and provided it meets at all times the ethical, academic, scientific, financial, infrastructure and any other requirements that may be established by law, shall be permitted to found and maintain private educational institutions under the strict inspection and vigilance of the State, with the prior approval of the latter.
Article 107: Environmental education is obligatory in the various levels and modes of the education system, as well as in informal civil education. Spanish, Venezuelan geography and history and the principles of the Bolivarian thought shall be compulsory courses at public and private institutions up to the diversified cycle level.
Article 108: The communications media, public and private, shall contribute to civil education. The State guarantees public radio and television services and library and computer networks, with a view to permitting universal access to information. Education centers are to incorporate knowledge and application of new technologies and the resulting innovations, in accordance with such requirements as may be established by law to this end.
Article 109: The State shall recognize the autonomy of universities as a principle and status that allows teachers*, students* and graduates from its community, to devote themselves to the search for knowledge through research in the fields of science, humanistic and technology, for the spiritual and material benefit of the Nation. Autonomous universities shall adopt their own rules for their governance and operation and the efficient management of their property, under such control and vigilance as may be established by law to this end. Autonomy of universities is established in the planning, organization, preparation and updating of research, teaching and extension programs. The inviolability of the university campus is established. Experimental national universities shall attain their autonomy in accordance with law.
Article 110: The State recognizes as being in the public interest science, technology, knowledge, innovation and the resulting applications, and the necessary information services, the same being fundamental instruments for the country's economic, social and political development, as well as for national sovereignty and security. To promote and develop these activities, the State shall allocate sufficient resources and shall create a national science and technology system in accordance with law. The private sector shall contribute with resources as well. The State shall guarantee the enforcement of the ethical and legal principles that are to govern research activities in science, humanism and technology. The manners and means of fulfilling this guarantee shall be determined by law. 

The rest of the Constitution of Venezuela is available online at:http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela#TITLE_1_FUNDAMENTAL_PRINCIPLES

I would hope that your visit is a good one here -- and give America a chance to see your new film, and for those who are interested in seeing your life story, I have included the video that people thought would never be aired here too
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Maybe you need to be reminded of what our people are really like == and who we really voted for: President Barack Obama and he stands and fights for those in need: he wants to do the right thing. Here is a song written by Michael Jackson that become a beloved song by the entire world. This is who we are. "We must help the needy; if we do not we do not,we do not know the Lord," a phrase from my Bible. Feel It! Then  think about the change President Obama is fighting for, like all of you should be doing too. It is the right thing!! A Half a million people proved that we can live in peace. That three day spectacular event showed everyone that peace is infectious: Woodstock was three days with a half a million people, the size of a small town without more than one accidental death, and one overdose. A baby was born there, and everyone had a way of communicating love and peace toward one another. That was the defining moment in history that I remember well. This is proof that everyone in the world can know love and compassion. You are the only ones who should remember. If help doesn't pass now, you know that there will never be another chance for change. I should not be living with my Dad and receiving government assitance. Without our help people will be like me in a matter of months, once they can no longer pay for their insurance. COBRA only lasts for about 24 months -- and during that time, people must pay as much as 600 dollars a month while they are too sick to work. What would you like for me to do? I cannot survive without help, but I deserve help because I paid taxes for at least 40 years. I was a teacher. I have three degrees in English, Journalism and Secondary Education ... and I am stuck in bed!

Well I am getting geared up to write about the things that can happen to people like myself, who think they have great insurance, or will never have to rely on the government for assistance.Believe me, If I lost everything I owned -- and my career -- due to an accident and illness, then ... IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE! 

There it is. The one everyone laughed at for buying so much insurance ... still lost everything because the insurance companies have a deal with hospitals to pay "staff doctors," who take over once you are hospitalized, and they work and answer to the Humana or (whatever insurance you have) whatever disability insurance you have too. They are hoping some doctor will not want to say that I'm too sick to work if they financially ruin me and I cannot get a doctor in my corner for a long, long time -- and it's so hard to find doctors willing to fill out forms.

Even if you are dying, the doctors do not want to stake their reputations on it without getting a huge sum of money to testify in court. They have "no" intention on paying anyone until they are 65 and practically pounce on the fact that a patient who is in pain and suffers from the kind of depression I have now as a result of my illness -- and for no other reason that I can think of. Yes, I had depression, even more so after my case worker called me every damned morning to tell me in a "catty' voice that she found out that some of my doctors cannot say for sure that I had Lupus. In fact, they are so sneaky that they fax each one of your doctors and ask them to respond within two weeks as to my condition AND IF LIBERTY MUTUAL DID NOT GET A RESPONE BY THEN, THEY WOULD ASSUME THAT THE DOCTORS BELIEVE THAT I COULD DO SOME KIND OF WORK.

I had to keep on top of the doctors like a beggar to make sure they answered the letters. By that time, the doctors didn't want to be my doctors anymore because of all the work I am to all of those concerned. I had TWO GREAT DOCTORS: Dr. Elaine Tozman, a professor in Rhuematology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, and Dr. Steven Zeig, an internist who diagnosed me with Lupus 30years ago and luckily a cool doctor who knew me for years and had the opportunity to fight off many blood infections that nearly killed me. He had saved my life several times. He and his partner, Dr. Levine, were known as the "doctors doctor."



After That way, they can say that your illness is a "mental condition" which is only covered for 24 months. I had to see all of their doctors (who said I wasn't physically sick enough to receive disability checks anymore -- and that I was just depressed and mentally ill). If it could happen to me, it could happen to you! 

I would hope that at a time when teachers are trying to go over the rules and procedures in each teachers class, that the schools are all being taught antibullying techniques too by the principals who I do 'not" believe are teaching all of these techniques. It is illegal in seven states to "not set in place" antibullying techniques. however, it should be mandatory in every state to teach the techniques, ones that can be incorporated into the first week's learning activities, and sound like fun, too, because they list some "mock situations" for students to use along withthe reading literature that tests the students at the end by giving questions and answers about how to deal with a bully -- and what kinds of personalities bullies truthfully have -- so, even the bully learns how obvious his inner problems are to others.

It is nothing new to teachers and administrators; most of them are seeking attention in the worst possible way imaginable. They make the lives of others miserable -- and now days, they kill others -- or cause others to want to defend themselves by carrying guns, or weapons to school. When are these school districts going to take responsibility for their lack of action and teaching "anitbullying" tecniques. Instead, they allow kids to come to school feeling scared of bullies every day of the year in some cases. Nothing is ever done until after someone dies. It does not take "rocket science" to figure out that the kids all have problems because of somebody besides the teachers. however, the teachers get blamed for everything. How can they teach when there is no way of quieting down some kids who are seeking attention so badly that he or she will act up in order to it. Like they say at teacher meetings, "If little Johnny isn't getting enough attention from his parents, he is going to get it somewhere!"

Of course, there is no excuse for any school in the day and age of guns, shootings and violence affecting so many of our schools all over the country-- and from all kinds of social classes -- to not address the problems of bullies in schools on day ONE!

If you are not interested, then do not read any further, but it may be your school that is in the news next after a student with a vengence comes to school prepared to shoot everyone there. This should be your first priority as a teacher, but mostly as a principal, or district supervisor, because it is illegal in at least seven states for school districts "not" to set in place antibullying techniques. Notice I said it is the responsibility of the principals and district supuervisors -- and ultimately the superintedant of each county in those states ... and not the teachers' responsiblility. This week teachers have to lay down the rules and procedures of their own classrooms, but if they nobody else teaches them, then teachers should find the literature I mention at the websites or the phone numbers I listed here for you.

I don't mean to undermine teachers first days to get the respect and lay down the law to their students. I know how hard it is to get them under control, once that opportunity has passed. are trying to make sure students learn the rules and procedures for their classes today and the rest of this week, and they are not getting much help from the principals as it is. Hopefully, some of you will use the literature available from some of the websites, or, find the phone numbers listed here in the end of this story.


After the death of a boy named Carl Walker, who had been suffering from bullying for quite sometime -- without getting any help -- you would think that schools would try harder by setting those antibullying classes in motion at the beginning of every year, but do we? No! We do after the next shooting or suicide. Then, all of a sudden, outpourings of concern come too much, too little too late -- and then if they can, the principals will blame it on the teachers.

I certainly hope all of the victims did not die in vain last  year,
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