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Friday, April 30, 2021
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Migrating Pain
I have been very busy preparing rental houses for sale with the passing of my mother in-law that has brought on intense and migrating R hip, leg, and knee pain.
When I searched online, the closest thing that I could find that matched my symptoms was a R-hip Larbral Tear, much like a Rotator Cuff Tear in the shoulder. It described the migration of pain, as my body's attempt to protect tissues from further injury by using different muscle groups in misaligned compensations. I began using NSAIDs almost continuously and stretching with little benefit or improvement.
When I went to my doctor, he looked at my gait, and my hands and said he wanted an Ex-Ray which revealed in Doctorese...
"Severe osteoarthritic changes of the right hip with decrease in the joint space, subchondral sclerosis and cyst formation with prominent marginal osteophytes..."
Well! I was very surprised that I had accomplished so much since retiring! No wonder people were complaining and laughing at me when I walked funny and slow.
Strangely I had minimized my loss of sleep and my reduced productivity and mobility and just kept plodding. I had racked the symptoms up to the manual labor and was expecting a natural recovery ending in a stronger me. Dismissing difficulty was natural to me because of my experience in working through the "Recovery Process," for the emotional dysregulation, of my, " Explosive Anger." There I had worked with other people experiencing a variety of types of dysregulation including drug, alcohol and sexual addictions like the young man who recently shot the massage workers.
As a young person I had experienced episodes of constant pain but as I aged I also matured in my ability to move past them.
As a nurse I know my pain is often an 8, but I have been able to function as if it were a 4 or less, (when focused). I am grateful for the degree of freedom that my peers and I have discovered through the Celebrate Recovery process, but I will also be starting into physical therapy program which will probably be much like the program on the radio talk. I assume this because of my painful stretching routine. Eventually this all may lead to hip replacement.(oh bother). Regardless I know that I will be ok.
So why am I writing all of this?
I recently heard radio talk and thought it was good. It is about a BDT approach, (not stated as DBT, but it is definitely dialectical) for Accomplishing Accommodation by lessening the Pain Amplification Process and raising the resilience and toleration threshold.
A very Interesting talk that describes dealing with pain both positively and negatively.
And also... Seemingly off topic... But it seems to me that these principles apply to cultural pain as well?
In fact, I believe that Dr. MLK Jr. would certainly agree! I believe he demonstrated this in his resolve not to overreact against the extremes of social injustice of his time. Extremes that took his life.
How would you describe the strength of character that MLK talked about and demonstrated in his choices of action?
And if you didn't already listen,
CLICK THE LINK BELOW
for an interesting NPR audio talk/read.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Joemala, Planned Parenthood and Cartels
Ignoring the Law to Reestablish and
Strengthen the Criminal Hierarchy
WILL JOE NOW HAVE KAMALA
IGNORE/MODIFY AND BLOCK LAWS
TO MAKE HER SERVICE
TO THE CARTELS
EVEN MORE PROFITABLE
THAN IT WAS TO...
THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD ORGANIZATION?
Planned Parenthood and Kamala Harris Attack the First Amendment
Now consider the financial gain
through political donations and (direct favors)if she protects these law breakersin the same way that she protected the lawbreakers of the Planned Parenthood Organization.
Fetal Trafficking Under Oath - Planned Planned Parenthood's Admissions About Partial-Birth Abortion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POdbu4bp5rQ
And now...
Joemala's service to the CARTELS
has already been FAR MORE PROFITABLE than any other time in history as they ignore Laws to support deadly Criminal Hierarchies that systemically harvest the spoils of human desperation!
This is no surprise to Joe,
consider back under Obama.
Consider Recent History
COMPASSION? REALLY?
IT IS LIKE YELLING FIRE IN A CROWDED THEATER...and Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is asking Biden to change his policy.
Thursday, March 11, 2021
PRIVILEGE THROUGH PREJUDICE
How do you navigate these complexities?
Do you often find yourself or those around you participating in new forms of discrimination?
A quote from the article cited below that describes prejudice training in our future leaders...
"Woe betide the working-class kid who arrives in college and uses Latino instead of “Latinx,” or who stumbles conjugating verbs because a classmate prefers to use the pronouns they/them. Fluency in woke is an effective class marker and key for these princelings to retain status in university and beyond. The parents know this, and so woke is now the lingua franca of the nation’s best prep schools. As one mother in Los Angeles puts it: “This is what all the colleges are doing, so we have to do it. The thinking is: if Harvard does it, it must be good.” and...
"In this worldview, complexity itself is a kind of racism, nuance is a phobia, and skepticism merely a type of false consciousness."
(See full article at link below)
https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites
What do you think?
How do you see these cultural changes?
And what is your role?
And why do you feel committed to it??
H.R. 2175, The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of August 5th 2002
(See link and screen capture below)
If you consider our historical heritage and value learning from past mistakes. It is important to consider how with the passage of the, "Equality Act," nurses will AGAIN BE FORCED to either violate their consciences, or leave their practices and positions of influence. This governmentally forced culture change is very similar to what happened to the German Nurses in 1939. Consider carefully the video below. It a is very well done documentary on that transition.
And again... I ask,
What are our thoughts?
How do you view these changes?
What is your role?
And why do you feel committed to it??
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Like yelling Fire in a Theater I The "BIDEN" Border Crisis
COMPASSION? REALLY?
IT IS LIKE YELLING FIRE IN A CROWDED THEATER...and Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is asking Biden to change his policy.
Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, complains that BIDENS POLICY is destabilizing many of our governments and communities by INCENTIVIZING the EXPANSION of the CARTELS?
AND THEY ARE CURRENTLY EXPANDING BIG TIME!
To Victimize the most desperate! And endanger the most vulnerable through careless control and coercion during transport, and even in America, after catch and release.
HOW?
By defunding Law Enforcement Agencies, Disbanding Anti-Gang Efforts and Dismissing Criminal Prosecutions Nationwide.
(Consider the following video)
WELCOME TO AMERICA CARTELS!
Your businesses are sure to blossom as...
CRIMINAL CONSEQUENCES are ABOLISHED!
You can even vote without identification in this land of the FREE RIDE. Compliments of the new administration.
BUT THERE IS NO FREE RIDE TO THE BORDER!
SO PAY UP PAPA! GIVE ME YOUR KIDDOS,
YOUR CASH AND PERSONAL INFO NOW!
(See full article at this link)
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/23/smuggling-migrants-a-billion-dollar-business/
(First Current Article Title)
Overwhelmed Mexican Alien-Smuggling Cartels Use Wristband System to Bring Order to Business
(Second Article Title)
13 killed in California border crossing crash: How did it happen? Why were there 25 people in an SUV? A visual explanation.
(SAY THEIR NAMES JOE-MALA!)
(BECAUSE THEIR LIVES MATTER TOO!)
(and)
(see full article below)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/ice-suspends-its-most-wanted-
Freed into cities that have defunded
anti-gang/anti-gun programs
and refuse to prosecute criminal activities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNcon-fnevY
(Fifth Article)
Biden Signs Executive Order Aimed at Expanding 'Voter Access'
(No ID required)
(see full article in link below)
With the previous border crisis abated and the expectation of easy entry reduced under Trump's leadership, Biden could have worked strategically to improve the immigration process and assist our neighbors in in their battle against Cartel Influence and control.
INSTEAD HE REOPENED THE PATHWAY FOR CARTELS
TO DOMINATE THE CULTURE.
,,,, while Hunter Biden now has a 10% stake in BHR, which he acquired through a company he created named Skaneateles LLC, “there have been no distributions to the shareholders since Hunter has been an equity owner.”
But that doesn’t mean Biden won’t eventually make millions from the deal. Steven Kaplan, who conducts research on issues in private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate governance and corporate finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, told us that a private equity fund with $2 billion under management will typically generate fees over its life of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Friday, November 13, 2020
The Social/Political Gospel and Cults of Personality
America's Social/Political Gospels...
Or are They Rejecting the Socialist Unification of Cultural, Religious and Political Power?
photo source:https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-stands-in-front-of-st-john-s-church-holding-bible-after-threatening-military-action-against-protesters-84206661837
The broadcasts highlighted, "bigger than life," personalities who were transformed into Heroes and Anti-Heroes.
Years later, as an adult while working at my hospital, I was called to assist in a confrontation with one of these heroic personalities. He was easy to recognize by name and appearance and fortunately physical confrontation became unnecessary when he responded to problem solving. But I was saddened to see this childhood hero, reduced to a frightened elderly man.
What I had experienced as a child is called a, "cult of personality," which is similar to the, "cult of the leader."
My intention is to compare and quantify these two terms in regards to President Trump. The, "cult of the leader," refers to a political or military figure that authoritatively captures the venue of mass media, (keyword authoritatively). Both cult forms work through the creation of spectacle and insert disinformation or propaganda or even the disarming effects of the big lie to create an idealized, heroic, and even worshipful image or regime.
These, "Cults of the Leader," or the regimes they create exist in a climate of unquestioning flattery and praise, (keyword unquestioning), where acts of glorification through the arts and government-organized demonstrations and rallies of focused loyalty are mandatory and dissenters are punished. North Korea's Dictator Kim Jong-Hyun is this type of leader.
Although the wrestling. "Cult of Personality," that I engaged in as a child, had it's distortions of reality. It was a harmless entertainment, tool used to create emotional engagement and excitement in the wrestling audience.
In the 2016 and 2020 Presidential elections, a similar technique occurred as Donald Trump personified himself, in a similar manner under the inspiration of the engaging and entertaining Jesse Ventura.
Jesse Ventura's entertaining," Persona," in Wrestling was also useful in Politicking. This strategy opened the door for him to successfully become a City Mayor and later, the Governor of the State of Minnesota.
Similar to Jesse... Trump's grandiose and engaging politicking style has also been successful and this success has also led to a, "Cult-Like," following. Although his presentation often seems extreme, he has not sought extremes in social or political change. He has not authoritatively taken charge of the government or media. On the contrary, his stance has been mostly Libertarian as he has demonstrated tolerance of opposing views and buffered changes on the social level. Consider for instance his being in support of conservative views on abortion and religious freedom and liberal views toward the Gay Community. (Have you heard his UN speech?)
Instead of seizing power and increasing authoritarian Governmental control, Trump's focus has been on reducing the powers given to Governmental institutions. For these reasons, I believe that Trump has an unusual, "Cult of Personality following, but not a, Cult of the Leader," position. I also believe that the unified, intense opposition to his presence and actions by his opponents show a much larger, more pervasive and authoritarian, "Cult of the Leader," regime wrongly labeled as Liberal tolerance.
In comparison, to Trump's, "Cult of Personality," the regimented effects found in the, "Cult of the Leader," (or regime of his opposition) are much more dangerous.
But back to the original question. How is all of the current emphasis on Trump and Trumpism being experienced by Christians? Are the thousands of predominantly Christian rural communities across America united in a desire to dominate and oppress those who disagree with them through the oppressive strength of an authoritative dominating leader? Are they seeking to centralizr power under the government?
The Strange Story of Gerhard Kittel
Two Kingdoms in the Third Reich - Professor Alec Ryrie
For a fuller understanding, I do encourage vieing the original 56 minute video at https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x79b28o.
And now after considering these lessons from history. What do you think? Are American Christians embracing a, "Cult of the Leader," with Donald Trump as in the Pro Hitler German-Christian Movement?
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE...
Controlling the Narrative.
(against perceived Jewish abuse after the assassination of Ernst vom Rath)
"A Turning Point
While in Germany years earlier, when we visited to reunite with my birth family. We also visited the Reichstag building in Berlin, (comparable to our Senate). In front of the building is a very small, very unusual monument. It was created to recognize the 96 members of the German congress who spoke out against the Nazi narrative. The Reichstag is where they unsuccessfully challenged the edicts followed by the newly formed, "Ministry of Information." Through the, Ministry, the Nazi narrative was advanced throughout the German culture and into the German public school system. It was celebrated by many, especially those in Hitler's Youth Corp. Large portions of this Nazi narrative were also incorporated into many of Germany's churches due to it's seeming popularity and to avoid future discrimination.
This monument is small in size and easy to disregard, like the effect of their voices, even as it occupies a place of honor in front of the Reichstag building.
The video below presents an eyewitness account from the perspective of a ten year old girl who experienced the narrative of the day. She lived in Austria and describes her excitement with the promises of a central planned Socialist State and the powerful cultural changes that came during the annexation of Austria.
Kitty Werthmann
Date: November 9,10,11,12, 2016
Location: Portland, Oregon and across the USA.
Earlier that November I had visited Israel with my son and his fiance'. Here I am at Israel's Holocaust Museum, #YadVashem Memorial.
The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
Black Pastors Ask Smithsonian to Remove Bust of Planned Parenthood Founder
Earlier they had endorsed acts of discrimination. But now widespread physical violence and destruction were seen as heroic acts of the people's will. This allowed them to move forward to eventually seize all Jewish property. It created the sanction for indiscriminate public executions and progressed their cause toward eventual mass genocide.
TWO YEARS EARLIER.... With Malheur, this same Governor, Kate Brown was not so amicable to protesters who challenged her values. It was on Wed, Jan 21st, 2016 that Governor Kate Brown demanded an end to the protest at Malheur Wildlife Refuge, ending the nonviolent phase stating... “This SPECTACLE of LAWLESSNESS must end! ... I WILL NOT STOP INSISTING that Federal Officials ENFORCE THE LAW!”
News | An Occupation In Eastern Oregon
Gov. Brown Appeals To Obama For Resolution To Malheur Occupation
and Governmental Responses
Our Constitution guarantees our right to both bear arms in a nonthreatening manner and redress our government with our grievance through petition and protests. This group did both as well as actively lessening their intimidation by conducting their protests away from population centers.
You don't add fuel to a hijacked plane.
You dump the fuel.
Titled: Don’t give Trump so much credit, America
With the rejection of the traditional Judaeo-Christian family and it's values, the modern nuclear family is being reshaped along media induced progressive guidelines in much the same way as happened in Pre-War Germany.
Youth uprisings after anarchist control. It really didn't seem that bad at the start. It's really not that bad, No not really