I have been reading and studying, trying to get a handle on the Obama-care issue. I know it is bad for the country, I know it is bad for the elderly, the disabled, the unborn. I know it is bad for the average American taxpayer and certainly for all future generations of Americans. But what I am surprised about are some of the groups calling for approval even though it could lead to the end of our control over end of life issues and an increase in abortions, all on the taxpayer's dime...


The first quote is from the Republican National Committee"s Michael Steele...the second from the American Papist website . I am absolutely confused, angry, and saddened all at the same time at the organizations who are supporting this. Be aware, just because the word "catholic" is in a title, does not mean that the faith and doctrine are followed by the organization.



"Under the Democrats’ scheme, insurance plans would have to provide people an “essential benefits package.” This package would be created by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services based on recommendations from a new federal advisory committee. As the bill is written, there is nothing that could keep federal bureaucrats from mandating that coverage of abortions be included in the “essential benefits package.”
This abortion mandate would not just apply to the Democrats’ government-run “option.” Any private plans that receive taxpayer subsidies to provide coverage to people with low to moderate incomes -- and under the Democrats’ plan that would be nearly all of them -- would have to provide coverage for abortions, and pay for them with taxpayer dollars, too."
For more of this article:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32879

"More importantly, Steven Ertelt tells us (ph/t, ALL) that three large Catholic organizations are mobilizing on behalf of Obama-care: Catholic Charities USA, The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and the Catholic Health Association (whose ad I mention above). More:
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Catholic Charities USA sent out an action alert asking members to contact their legislators immediately."



"Please call and e-mail your Representative in the next 24 hours expressing your support for Congress to enact health care reform now," the groups said in a joint action alert last week.

"Saint Vincent de Paul is partnering with Catholic Charities USA and the Catholic Health Association to amplify our collective voice to let Congress know that health care reform can not wait," that group says on its web site.
For more information...http://www.americanpapist.com/blog.html




My advice is to read about it, talk about it with everyone you know. I am afraid that most people who say they are for Obama-care, have no idea what is really all about. I firmly believe that the more information that gets out, the more knowledge people have, the more they will see the danger of it all.
Write your representatives and ask them to vote no on this legislature. We , as a nation cannot afford to put our health, our lives into the hands of an administration has so little respect for life.

we are our brother's keepers...

This afternoon I took my trash out from my office. As I neared the dumpster I saw a man lying on the sidewalk, feet in the street. His car was in the middle of the street running, door open. He was moaning, moving, and seemed to be in some sort of distress. I had no cell phone with me so I went back into the office and asked Fr. Kubat, (who is also a doctor) to come out with me and check this man out. I told him we may need to call an ambulance. Fr, Pat and I went back out to see what we could do. The man was not very coherent. He told us his name , but that was all he could manage. We called 911 and an ambulance was on the way. I left him in the good hands of my coworkers and the emergency crew. Later Pat told me the man had very low blood sugar and was minutes from slipping into a diabetic coma. How he managed to stop his car and get out is a mystery to all of us. He was very close to an intersection of a very busy main street. It could have ended very badly, but it ended well. Thank God for putting us in the right place at the right time.
This was the second time I had called an ambulance in a week. Last Thursday we had a client that passed out in the office.

Wonder how I can fit that into a resume........

Hope and Change....

I stopped at my friendly neighborhood mini-mart for my much needed diet coke, in the Styrofoam cup, any size $.89, chock full of caffeine, morning wake up. I had forgotten that Bede "stole" my $20.00 bill last night for his coffee.

I sat in the parking lot digging into the depths of my purse. Obama's "Hope and Change" came to my mind...

Me...I was just hoping for change! Thank goodness for giant purses.

There is always Hope, and there is always Change at the bottom of a woman's purse.

I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it....

I'm BAAAAAAAACK !!!!! Thought you were rid of me, Huh? No such luck. I have been refreshing, relaxing, and trying to ignore much of the news lately. Not just because it makes me angry, depressed, crabby, and hard to live with but also makes me want to break things... So I tried to just let it all go. We had a great visit with Bede Jr. Home from Iraq for 2 weeks. Went to Texas to attend the wedding of our nephew, Joshua. Then just spent a week in Idaho with the Bolin clan, talking, eating, sitting, talking, and talking some more...with an occasional glass of wine thrown in for good measure. ( Maybe more than an occasional glass according to some of the neices.)

I have to admit, it was wonderful not really paying attention to the world and it's craziness for a while. BUT...(there is always a big BUT) before we left for Idaho, Michael Jackson died. We suffered through a few days of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the press and psycho fans. I did really believe it would all be over soon. But after a week away and 11 days after his death...he's still dead, and they are still wailing and weeping and proclaiming him a world icon. What will we do without him??? I suppose the same thing we did everyday before he died. Honestly, Michael Jackson was at one time a truly talented singer, dancer. But that was years ago and since then he degenerated into a weird, tragic man who liked children too much, did everything possible to leave his blackness behind and become white. He had 3 white children, married white women, had so many surgeries to change his facial features that his face was no longer the face of Michael Jackson, but the face of a white child/woman, whose nose was actually caving in on itself. He had no real friends, but people like Liz Taylor and Dr's who were so devoid of any moral compass that they would give him all the drugs he wanted as long as the money kept coming. He was sick! He was sick and rich, and there is the real tragedy. Money and fame, drugs, the inability and unwillingness of anyone around him to say "NO", or "That's not a good idea". Now I hear there is talk of putting him on a postage stamp. Amazing, are there no other role models, real heros, people who have made great choices, hard choices, the right choices that we can idolize?

Actually the more I think about it, the more it makes me want to scream. I just wish it had the same effect on other people. Days and days of coverage on all the news shows. I know there must have been real important things going on in the world, Marines fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, the pope releasing his latest encyclical, North Korea firing off more missles...just guessing...
But a tragic, sick, drug addicted has been dies and the world stops...how incredibly sad!!!