Katrina Victims or Survivors — after all of these years???

On January 9th of this year, a posting was made by Timmy called “You want what?”.   In the posting he states:  
Today’s Kick in the Ass goes to an anonymous person, or asshat, who filed a claim against the federal government for of $3 quadrillion for over damage from the failure of levees and flood [...]

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A Different Kind of Christmas Poem

I, honestly, cannot remember if this was also circulated around last year or not in our emails as well; whatever the case though, it certainly would bear repeating….enjoy!!

A Different Christmas Poem
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my [...]

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In the times of religious acknowledgment…

especially in the world of the media and politics which can often grey out some black and white viewpoints, leaving folks not knowing whether they stand for what they believe in or believe in what they stand for, an author comes forward and writes a book entitled, God’s Politics:  Why the Right gets it Wrong [...]

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You Tube Shows

Steven’s TV Video video talks about how the world is changing to utilize free technology to put forth their campaigns…not just for amateurs anymore.  See Oprah, politians, comedians, etc. take advantage of the video tubes to tell you story….
What do you think?

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Searching your dream job…

Does anyone actually achieve their dream job — or, is it just merely a figment of everyone’s imagination?
While someone may be doing the job they absolutely love to do, it may not pay all that well and they have to struggle to make ends meet.  Additionally, family members or friends may look down upon someone [...]

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Parent Alienation Syndrome – “Junk Science” says…

those at the Justice for Children program. 
“It is the position of Justice for Children that PAS is junk science.
“P.A.S. per se (not “parents lying about abuse allegations”) is not a syndrome.   People lie on the witness stand every day but that does not make it a syndrome.   Various credible studies have documented that the incidence [...]

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OTC Paternity Tests???

I know that they have talked about it for a while… and you have been able to purchase a kit online and send it off to the various DNA labs, but now (in accordance to the Houston News Station) they are available over the counter as well?
What do you think about that?
I am sure that, [...]

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“Grace Will Lead Me Home” – Robin Givins

“Grace will lead me home” – the title of the book she is promoting and speaking out about domestic violence, bringing home to a lot of victims of domestic exactly the fears, trials and tribulations that they have faced and feared.  Check out her story in these YouTube videos:
 
 

– Robin Givins Story, Pt 1
 
 
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Craigslist Murder!

Sent to me by a friend…. check it out. Be cautious and be safe!!!
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Can you believe???

“Asabe Ladagu, a Christian widow in this capital city of Borno state in northern Nigeria, has survived without income the past 16 months. It was that long ago, the former librarian told Compass, that Muslim administrators at Ramat Polytechnic forced her into early retirement – without pay – after she and others requested land to [...]

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Supporting Sears; Supporting Our Troops!

Received this in my email today.  It is comforting that some businesses can and do actually go beyond their call of duty these days; so many don’t.  It is indeed a rare find and we should support those who do.
See below for full story:
Sears Walks the Walk…
 
Could we each buy at least one thing at [...]

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Boy Suspended for Drawing

So frustrating is the fear of the unknown.   I remember when I was mentoring a after school program in an Community Program in a poorer segment of Austin (not East Austin) and a young boy had drawn a much worse picture than this child who had been suspended.  While I was alarmed that a boy [...]

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Margaret Mead – “Never doubt…”

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On another domestic violence note,

October is domestic violence month.
I have a dear friend in Pennsylvania who heard one of Congresswomen speak out with the declaration of Domestic Violence Month and everything uttered out of that woman’s mouth was as if the victim is always a woman. Here, in this video below, sent to me via a Canadian friend [...]

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Taking debt for granted….

So many folks feel that, if they get too far into debt, they’ll just file bankruptcy. Discovered this cartoon on Slate.com today, and it couldn’t have been depicted any better….

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Censorship at the Capitol of the United States?

Received this in my email today.  It is amazing at what lengths people will go who “think” that they have the rights and authority to do so, when in fact they do not.  Will this guy be held accountable for his actions? What do you think????
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Religious words such as God, Lord banned by Architect of [...]

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Just in re Selwyn P Davis – on trial for Domestic Violence

Just arrived about the woman being killed by her daughter’s boyfriend, Selwyn P. Davis, last year (he is on trial)
 “Davis, the former boyfriend of Lara’s daughter, is accused of killing Lara on Aug. 22, 2006, during a two-day crime spree. He also is accused of breaking his ex-girlfriend’s jaw, slicing his uncle with a knife, [...]

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Domestic Violence Awareness

 

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Battered, but not Broken — Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October 1-31, 2007)

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American Businesses Need to Rethink Manufacturing Tactics?

Quite possibly! In response to another blogger’s blog posting, I responded:
“It is indeed something to think about… China, Mexico, and many other countries are mass producing things for us….
but, flags have to rise when are products are being imported tainted with things that could kill each and every one of us and the environment [...]

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Unfit husband law???

Friend reported to me tonight that a friend was arrested in Travis County, Texas, recently on a Class B charge of being an unfit husband and asked me if I had ever heard of such of a thing.  I told him that I have certainly heard of being an unfit parent, but insofar as being [...]

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Fire Engine at a Dead Stop on Upper Deck of IH35

I was in another part of the same highway and noticed this fire engine that decided to take the upperdeck of the highway at about 4pm that day with its lights on. Normally, not a bad decision as the traffic begins to build up later. Couldn’t get a good shot of it where it [...]

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Found this cartoon on Slate.com today

It certainly has its point driven home. What ARE the carmakers going to do to eliminate the gas guzzler’s on the road? True. There are the hybrids that are saving many consumers hundreds, if not thousands of gas expenses, each year; but, the prices of most of the hybrid vehicles are still [...]

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Day care workers are baulking at having to do criminal background checks or the rate hike?

Per the 80th Legislation article in the Austin American Statesman today,
Day care owners balk at costly new background checks for employees
Children’s advocates, bill author say the fingerprint checks are key for safety
it indicates that the child care workers are all riled up over Governor Perry signing into law that will require a $50 fingerprint background [...]

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Received from a friend re Credit Card Scam…

This post has been moved to resolve, hopefully, a technical issue on this home page.

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Preventing Oil Pricing Gouging

Received this email from a friend of mine this morning….
“Hi,
Can you face another summer where a day trip to the lake or the beach costs you an arm and a leg? It’s shaping up to be just that if we don’t ask Congress to stand up to Big Oil now.
The House passed a bill last [...]

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Pro-Active Sex Offender Capture Measures?

I certainly hope so.  Texas has been aggressive against sites, such as MySpace.com, to provide them with the Sex Offenders on their sites, especially after having to sue them for their accountability after some children were attacked by sexual predators when they went to meet them in person.  I am sure that will only make [...]

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Immigration…hmmm….

If you go back into my public reader blogs on the Austin American-Statesman (either the “Inquiring Minds” as txbluebonnet2006 or “Inquiring Minds” as txbluebonnet), you will see that I have written extensively about this subject matter.  They were shouting back then that it was all an “amnesty” ploy that the government was coming up with; [...]

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UPDATE: Emilio Gonzales

See the Austin American Statesman’s article, “Emilio’s short life likely to be long remembered: Terminally ill child’s case could influence laws and debate on end-of-life care”. I couldn’t have put it to words better myself.
I certainly do hope some laws do get to change. The thing is, it wasn’t just about spending [...]

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Domestic Violence – Sign the Petition!

Your say is needed to make sure that DV programs are funded.  Lifetime is pushing the petition to be signed and states the following:
Tell Congress to fund critical programs that help thousands of victims of domestic, dating and sexual violence
In just a single day, domestic violence programs served nearly 50,000 adults and children in [...]

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Futile Care Compassion?

OMG, I went to YouTube this morning and found this message of a voice mail left by a hospital about the care of someone’s father. The lack of compassion heard here is appalling and is worse than any bill collector that I have ever heard. Someone needs to teach this woman a bit [...]

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Baby Emilio – Futile Care Bill

 In following up on my Bits and Pieces posting, I had mentioned that Baby Emilio Gonzales’ Mother was fighting hard to keep Baby Emilio, at 17mos old, sustained on resuscitation equipment for just a little bit longer. On April 17th, the Court heard the matter and extended the hearing awaiting on other [...]

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Paparazzi, paparazzi!

So Italian sounding is the name “paparazzi” that one presumes that it is all good, so associated with the good eats that the Italians have — ie, “Pizza, pizza!!” — however, a paparazzi can never really be good news.  While keeping some celebrities in line with the social graces by exposing their bad behaviors to [...]

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Texas’ Temporary Fix to Soaring Gas Prices???

In the past month or so there has been some emails circulating fast and furiously wanting people to not pump gas on May 15, 2007, but as pointed out in my posting entitled, “May 15, 2007, Gas Out Misgivings”,  Snopes argues that it isn’t an effective approach to take because it merely shifts the day that [...]

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When a Protective Order Becomes More Than “Just a Piece of Paper!”

When does a Protective Order become more than “Just a piece of paper”? When you advocate for programs like this come into place in your state!! See the following article…
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Health Care — Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine & Vermont!

Health insurance just improved for 4 states.  Progress is in the making, at the very least!!
Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine & Vermont! « Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM”

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“Copyright Infringement” in Blogland???

Last night I was attacked by Snopes via email stating that I had infringed on their copyright by quoting them, even with crediting them through a link for my readers. I immediately complied and removed it, but not without putting in a statement of the removal because it directly affected the climate and argument [...]

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Just a thought: What about…

having the oil/gas companies fund our health care programs, from the obvious profits that they are squirreling away, so that everyone can have access to health care equally???
Either the oil/gas companies will tire of having to foot the health care access bills or they will drop the oil/gas prices in effort to get out of [...]

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March 15th, 2007 – Gas Out Day Misgivings?

A friend of mine from Canada sent this to me…
Imagine the effect (if it would really work):

“Our gas went up this week to about $5.00 gallon for regular. So I won’t pump gas on the 15th NO GAS…On May 15th 2007
Don’t pump gas on MAY 15th
In April 1997, there was a “gas [...]

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Lack of Warning to Residents of an Apartment Complex in Austin, TX, of an Alleged Sexual Assault

I can understand that there is a reason to be quiet about notification rather than send the residents into a panic; but, geez this apartment complex needs to exercise some sense. They are talking about an alleged sexual assault (just because it is alleged doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen; just means that the [...]

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The Working Uninsured

A great article posted here about the perils of the working uninsured is found here.  Be sure to check them out and see various options pitted here.  Maybe you can come up with another resolve??
“The Working Uninsured” by John Rossheim « Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM”

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Do You Think That GW Might Have Some Missouri Roots???? lol…

Just kidding a bit; however, everyone knows that the attitude that many Missourians have is “Show Me”, which has been the motto of their state as well.
News has flied all over that President George Bush has vetoed a bill — the second only during his terms of offices — yesterday that involved in funding of [...]

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Is the New Miss America a Fake?

It is all over the news that the Miss America, Lauren Nelson, was all talk and vying more for a PR stunt rather than have the intent to testify to the courts in Suffolk County, New York, about the child predators they caught with regard to them thinking that they were going to come to [...]

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Drug Company Ethics

Just like in the previous posting about UT’s unethical woes of being wooed by lenders who offer special treats and favors to have a strong presence in their offices. It was rumored that the reason that Governor Perry, of Texas, was also wooed by Merck about the ovarian cancer drug that he was [...]

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More on Alex Baldwin…

Found this article on him and thought I would share it with you all, although, I am sure, that he would prefer all this media exposure to just go away and quiet down. The author certainly does make a good point in the end.
Published on April 29, 2007 by Ezine @rticles
Alex Baldwin Doesn’t Get [...]

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Prisoner of Love…

is the name of an article (subtitled – Shattered by loss and overcome with lonliness) in the February 2007 issue of Vogue written by a woman (Joyce Maynard), who is an author of a syndicated column, who found herself being a penpal with a man in prison.
The article is interesting and intriguing as you want [...]

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Got an opinion on Health Insurance??

Check out this page on opinions that I have collected from YouTube about the quality of health insurance and the need for health care reform. Come see what I have collected so for and offer your own opinion as well. Would love to hear from you!
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Media Influences

Who do you blame when your child pulls pranks and verges on the criminalistic side? Some will be quick to blame parents for allowing their children to listen to rap music, for instance. While some rap music can be alright, it is certainly not the norm of the rap culture who glorifies violence, [...]

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Duh?? Texas Medicaid Program Ranks 48 of 50 States

Can I imagine? Yes!!!!!
It is what I have been complaining about all along. People say that, if you don’t have insurance, just apply for Medicaid. It isn’t all that simple and this article, “Public Citizen: Texas Medicaid Program One of the Country’s Worst”, on the American-Statesman reiterates my point exactly.
In [...]

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Monday’s Tragedy at VTI – Mental Illness and Violence

Although people often use the terms mental illness and violence in the same sentence, especially when there was such a tragedy as was had at Virginia Tech Institute. People jump to the conclusion that, because, for instance, the violence that affected so many students and staff at the Institute was so maddening, they often presume [...]

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Plastic bags to Green Earth Spring Cleaning!

Austin City Council is considering a ban on plastic bags.
When Whole Foods and Central Market came along more than 20 years ago they promoted that recycled bag, but it didn’t really take off too well.  Oftentimes the bag weighs more than the groceries themselves and can oftentimes be bulky.
A CVS employee mentioned last night when [...]

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If you were to vote today for a President…

who would you vote for? Would you vote Republican or Democrat? Do you have a favorite so far???
VOTE HERE
and cast who you would vote for today. The results may surprise you. Currently one leads the pack, but not enough have voted yet, I don’t think, to give a good idea of who [...]

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Killer Hugs???

This week, so far, has been a bit with some craziness — Virginia Tech massacre allegedly due to a domestic violence/obessesive ex syndrome issue. Abortion/Pro-life folks coming to a head on some of those issues. Brought up some YouTube domestic violence videos and posted them under the DOMESTIC VIOLENCE tab for you [...]

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Has the Nation Gone Mad This Week?

Shocking is the news of the killings and woundings found at Virginia Tech this morning from a gunman that went on a rampage and killed 31 and wounded 29 with his shootings at two different buildings on campus  two hours apart — a dormitory and some classrooms in another building.  This sends chills as we [...]

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“Inspire by Example”

This is the theme for this week’s National Volunteer Week as proclaimed by every President since 1974, as sponsered by the USA Freedom Corps and Points of Light Foundation.   
I am, myself, a huge advocate of volunteering.  In the past 30 some odd years, I have been known to volunteer for political campaigns, CASA (Court Appointed Special [...]

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Does health care truly value society??

Amazing today about the whole issue a level of quality of care being available to one and all alike in our society has to be an issue at all in today’s society. Read under my HEALTHCARE NOTES tab about this very issue that I discussed with my father today over a brunch we had [...]

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Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM” :D

Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM”
Check out pictures from last year’s SafePlace Walk (2006) to see the excitement and fun that you will have at this year’s Safe Place Walk (2007) who raises funds for domestic violence and sexual assault programs in the Austin area. See you all there on Saturday, April 14th!
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Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM” :D

Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM”
So much was added today.  More shopping links, Radio-Television-Film links, interesting links on self help and domestic violence issues, Webby Award links and so much more were added.  I added a Sunrise Thoughts article, as well as an article about being careful regarding Imus, a tragic death of a 7 [...]

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Being Careful – Theme for the Day?

Imus leads the pack in being careful, without doubt.  It was announced today that MSNBC that they will cancel running the simulcast of his show as the sponsors for the advertising have pulled their ads; they may sponsor again at a later time, but not for Imus’ show.  Sometimes, one has to wonder if these folks [...]

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Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM” :D

Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM”
Lots went on today besides adding a lot more resource links to the page, as well as linking up some blogger pages that I have found interesting.  Check out the YouTubes about a strong parent and the miniture earth; some extemely moving videos.  Speaking of videos I found some that [...]

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Bits and Pieces of Thoughts of the Day…

Today, I crossed one of my fears.  I had been given a recumbant bike by a person that put it in the online classifieds for free.  I wanted it because I thought with my knee problems I would be able to do that in my home and not have such high impact on my knees [...]

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So many new links added over the weekend…

Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM”
The site has been updated with additional domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, healthy living, teen dating helps and sites, as well as a links to articles on domestic violence, predator safety, child internet protection, and so much more.  Come take a look and explore.  While the site is still under [...]

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Texas’ Missing Children Center Announced

This past week First Lady Laura Bush announced the decision of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to open up a Regional Office which is to become one of the hubs for the organizations efforts to find missing and exploited children, many of who are missing from the Texas area as well. [...]

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Who is responsible for domestic violence?

Check out the DOMESTIC VIOLENCE tab here for a page written about the CIRCLE OF ACCOUNTABILITY, along with a video, entailing some ideas/suggestions about the responsibilities of everyone in the “village”.  Where does domestic violence end?

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What is Advocacy?

In general terms, advocacy is being there to help someone else out and help them by speaking out for them when they otherwise feel that they could not.  Some examples, of course, would include scenarios, such as:
* being a Court Appointed Special Advocate or a Guardian ad Litem to speak up in the best interest of the [...]

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More Information on The Castle Doctrine « Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM” :D

More Information on The Castle Doctrine « Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM”
Updated another page on the site with Mike Rosen’s blog comments on The Castle Doctrine as well as my own viewpoint, or rather some notes and thoughts thereof.  I would really enjoy hearing from others on their veiwpoint of The Castle Doctrine and [...]

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The Castle Doctrine « Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM” :D

The Castle Doctrine « Worldly Inquiring Mind “iWIM”
Because the theory is that everyone has the right to defend his home, Texas Governor Perry has signed into law what is known as “The Castle Doctrine” on March 27, 2007.  I have created a page about it and am looking for opinions on this.  Would [...]

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