Scarlet Periwinkle Considers...

What Actually Happens to Destitute with Health Care Needs in U.S.- Experiencial Evidence

2010-01-07T13:37:00.000-08:00

I just want to tell the history of a man to whom I gave assistance a few years ago. He had worked for me for a couple of years many times in landscape projects. He had been to Vietnam in the supplies divisions and had come back to find his girlfriend gone and a baby he thought he had fathered. He began to drink and continued for 30+ years finally escaping to a commune in southern Indiana for respite. But he continued to drink and make problems for himself. He really hadn’t been able to ever keep a job, but was really a talented comedian and had a lot of great musical knowledge, and ability to entertain at a party. After being kicked out of the commune he had become homeless twice, and I arrange to ask him if he wanted to make a trade for living in a small cabin of general landscape care and a few other helpful things on my property with me. I was temporarily keeping his dog, and this way he could be with her too. And so it began.

Not too long after he was found unconscious on his front stoop at 3am by my dogs, who notified me of a problem as they sensed it from the inside of my cottage. I took him to the hospital to save time and he was given ‘every test under the sun’ including brain scan where they found that he had a tumor, and lung cancer. I stayed with him all night and part of the day during these tests. I was able to do all his paperwork and explain to him the meanings of the paperwork. He was set on a very successful regimen for brain radiation (which removed the tumor) and oncology with one of the best oncologists our city. And we had appointments set up with me as the liaison for Medicare and Social Security disability monetary help. The Hospital never billed him as all the paperwork was done and understood-he was destitute.

Other things given to him during this time because he had a personal advocate, was smoking cessation medical care and psychological medications. I cared for him gratis, and was certainly sometimes ‘nurse Ratchet’ disallowing too much pain meds and providing super veggied, fine protein meals. Cigarette smoking was not allowed on the property and only one cigar could be smoked a day if he HAD to. What I see was the difference for this man, who was only 54 years old and looked 90 for the abuse he had reeked on himself, was that he had a well educated-English literature major, with Medieval Studies interests-who could accomplish, with legal understanding the applications and appointments needed to set him up with the health care for the poor that is already provided in this country. In this case he needed a volunteer personal advocate

IN my further work with the homeless and generally incompetent population-many of whom are very intelligent, but not able to sort out everyday life- have been brought up by addicts and others-they need a battery of people who can walk them through the procedures required to get help. This person not being hired by the government, because they are usually paranoid about ‘big brother’ and just won’t come to get help. Churches and synagogues or other religious groups could do this work. Every large town or city population has the resources to do this

This gratis care is what hikes up the costs of the economic middle class, insurance companies, and the wealthy. But we can say that in the U.S. people don’t die of the inability to access health care. Sometimes they die of their own refusal to ask for it soon enough. No child dies from lack of health care as we have marvelous charity organizations that make it policy not to turn down families for lack of funds. Many people don’t go for health care because of the fear that it will cost money…and then it can be too late. In England while I was there they allowed 2 infants to die because the doctors had a strike and there weren’t any operating rooms. Obama is like a little boy who decides to take his dad’s watch apart to “fix it” and can’t put it back together again, when all it needed was cleaning and a real watchmaker to tweak a gear or two.
Scarlet Periwinkle

Educational focus change for TSA, security required.

2010-01-05T20:58:00.000-08:00

There is a lot of discussion in the media regarding the stupidity and unbelievable incompetence of the TSA for airline security or the border patrol delusions of grandeur,in the way that they treat the American public. Especially since it does not result in 0% incidence of terror. At least two reporters have said, ‘imagine if this kind of overstepping the bonds of constitutional liberty extended to the everyday life of Americans!’ These men have not had to deal with the everyday experience in our local government. They both are well employed and have probably just sent a lawyer to take care of any issues they have had with government offices.

Let me assure you, as someone who has to do everything herself, the people that the Councilmen and other administrators of government hire are purposefully hired because they are unquestioning ’droids’. Because of this, technically speaking, numbers of things get done ( which looks good on paper). Many times these non-critical actions for the sake of numbers, can seem to go on successfully for years, and even go through the exchange of candidates, such as sheriffs, or auditors, or treasures (for example) without discovering to the public the problems stacking up in the non-critically run offices!

In my county this is DEFINITELY the case. Then they (the cronies bi-partisan) turn themselves inside-out trying to hide it from the public. In our town they virtually own the newspaper. They ‘own’ it even though people have cancelled their subscriptions by droves to buy papers that report some news. The paper is on the brink of going under. They are in such denial that they think it is because of the internet that subscriptions are down. But the “old people” who compose the money in this town ,and used to take the local paper, have told me that it is because the relatively new policy of reporting only the great things about Bloomington instead of any real news or controversy that might be happening here. They opt for national papers. The town’s paper has become an elaborate travel brochure. There are no arguments, discussions, or examinations of the judicial in the paper as used to occur in the 19th century, when there were at least two papers for the voting public.

We need to require the hiring of educated folks to run the TSA posts and government offices. I don’t even mean educated in the sense that a lawyer is educated. I mean that the people who have humanities degrees where they were required to read and to argue classical points of freedom and such, as well as being trained in the Security business or Legal business should be hired for our offices and security positions (or we could require more critical thinking in high school again). Eighty percent of the security people I come across are at the level of the typical car mechanic at a box store. This is not bad if you are young and aiming to be a professional car mechanic someday. It is not what is needed for making national security decisions.

On the other hand, the Obama administration is so arrogant about their country club qualifications (which mean nothing other than attending a University that used to be a great academic institution and now sustains it’s PR by pretense and perceived prestige) that they think they are the only ones in America of importance. It reminds me of the nobles in 16th century England. Exactly the people our forefathers wrote the Constitution to prevent the seizing of our people’s God given freedom. They are like the ‘popular kids’ in high school, manipulators of the unpopular kids.

People on the top social echelon think the people they represent are idiots and the people they hire haven’t been required to have the minds of thinkers and questioners, because that kind of person can’t easily be controlled when asked to do nonsensical things. It s a typical modern management scenario, taught by the best technical schools. It is something the public schools of the last 40 years have cultivated in the U.S. But being lemmings is not good for the profile of the people in the United States. And that’s a bigger story.

ly SP

Financial responsibility for finanacially disastrous legislation...

2009-12-24T13:12:00.000-08:00

Being Responsible for Lies

Well folks, the people who participate in our national (at least) legislature, are very afraid of something. It appears to be a fear of the same sort we know existed in the Soviet Union before its’ fall, and probably until this day. It reminds me of Venice in the 16th century, sadly. Our Emperor Obama, over his czars, has trotted out more obviously false statistics meant to appease the people living in the United States, the citizens of it, in his speech over the Senate winning vote for the takeover of national healthcare in America. Even though he lies outright, it seems there is nothing to do about it. No man is willing to take him on to point this out in the legislative body. As if their lives were being threatened by assassins.
If Baraqi-el Obama is so sure his plan will bring prosperity according to HIS propaganda office’s numbers then let him pay from his own resources IF IT DOESN’T TURN OUT THAT WAY! Bind all the fortunes of the men who follow his legislative lying to the people that they represent, requiring that they pay personally for this terrible debt that they are creating. Otherwise let Baraq join the original fallen angel for whom he is named, in the lower reaches of Hell for eternity, yet may God have mercy on his human soul.

In centuries before this, traitorous legislators would pay with their lives. I don’t suggest they be killed but serve as janitors, dredging cess pools at water treatment plants, and finally going to a government run “old folks home” when they finally become to old to do the work. All my love, Scarlet Periwinkle

2009-12-24T13:09:00.000-08:00

The Way things Work Folks!

Even at the State level the legislators do not really write the law bills. They are faces, and talking heads. It has long been the case that the legislators hire many lawyers for their staff, to write the bills that they approve. These politicians also believe themselves to be ignorant of the ability to write law properly. They trust these others to translate their idea into legal-ease. They assume that the staff is writing with their interests to heart. At the federal level it was finally declared publicly how the politicians don’t even read the bills themselves before voting either way! They just trust their staff that the writing says what they wanted it to say!

For the information of the public may I tell you that a law degree does not require any writing or major history classes to give context to this legal-ease. The public seems to assume the law degree requires great and wise knowledge when really, for the most part, it is a simple technical degree, not a intellectual degree such as that of Doctor of Philosophy; a Phd.
I fear that this may all end in violence, because of disparity and desperation. President Obama and the other politicians think that they are safe because of the physical guns that surround them, but some people recall the old saying ‘give me liberty of give me death’. Turn from your apostasy, before it is too late.

Gullibility from misinformed Guilt?

2009-12-24T13:06:00.000-08:00

Rich Countries to pay for Poor

I understand that the urban people who call themselves environmentalists in Copenhagen think that the “rich countries” should pay for the capping of “greenhouse gasses” in the “poor countries”. Obviously this puts the United States out of the responsibility and this is something for which we can thank usurping emperor Obama. He has made us nigh on bankrupt. In fact, why don’t we just go bankrupt and depend on our own resources for a few years. Big box stores would suffer but… just a thought. Scarlet P

Stars Wars scene

The impression is that the urban environmentalists gathering in Copenhagen envision themselves in the great scenes of science fiction movies where the ‘great and wise’ cosmic leaders gather to design the futures of their subjects (key word) in a great high tech room in the sky somewhere. Great!

Most of the environmentalists are urban people full of imaginings, and who bodies are inside most of the time reading and seeing computer generated images of the world. Their world is truly the virtual world, yet their yakking is that which is presented by the media available. The farmers and landscapers, the people involved in the actual world of nature do not write and yak, not having access to the media, yet they are the ones who know the real circumstance of the earth. The research scientist is traditionally not a social person. People don’t even think of looking at the farmer’s almanac. The common citizen reads in the media available and can only guess that THEY know what is true. But it is really amazing that the common honest citizen, or do I dare say the gullible citizen, doesn’t believe his own eyes! Doesn’t track the temperatures himself, from his own empirical experience, so that the truth can be known. That the common man does not realize that ANYTHING can be made to LOOK true in a movie. That is the nature of the beast. In fiction that is wonderful, but in factual programs, it is deceitful. Hmmmm…

Scarlet Periwinkle

The Obama administration cannot be called democrat, it is despotic and the real democrats in the U.S. are kind people who believe in the tendency for human NOT to lie and deceive. They just cannot believe that people would lie on TV, because certainly they will be embarrassed later. They and traditional republicans cannot believe that the Constitution would not be upheld as the basic contract between the government and the people. They dare not believe it as the whole basis of freedom and liberty of our forefathers would be taken away by military force. Since a high school education no longer requires library research skills and English literature that examines the arguments for American freedom, or lays out the reasons in history for the conclusions drawn by our founding fathers, the common citizen in America has not been given the skills to argue and debate against despots in the government. This government is elitist in secret. It speaks of government for the people because they think they are the more educated and wise people to treat the people as ignorant but beloved children. Notice they do not speak anymore of government BY the people. They feel no responsibility to vote as their constituents desire. For all intents and purposes, this is now a kingdom in the Germanic tradition where the Kaiser is periodically voted into office. It is not even a round table system, encircled with honorable knights. And in the worst case it is like a south american dictatorship. We won’t be feeling the pinch until after the point of no return I fear.

All of our letters and comments to the offices of the legislators probably don’t matter. The legislators that tow the line for those in power may have been guaranteed their positions, as the votes are tallied electronically and can be managed easily. Since God is no longer officially watching in American society, as we have rejected Him and He always gives us that prerogative, our legislators have no compulsion to tell eternal truth or expect retribution or judgment for deceit. Our ’great expectations’ are no longer realistic in regards to the just and honest attitudes of our politicians. Stop, America, being gullible.

what about impeachment...when you consider his predicessors

2009-10-28T18:13:00.000-07:00

Obama has sent our troops into harms way. They were already there, and he has refused to send them protection. This resulting in the death of the American girls and boys legally bound to him by contract, to stay and be sitting soldier ducks because of Obama's care-less-ness. He should be personally responsible. Perhaps be forced to spend a couple of weeks in Afganistan or Iraq being a soldier. Then, what do you bet Mr. Narcissis would gather protection around himSELF.

Why doesn't any legislator cry "impeach him"! Cheezwiz! They cried it when Clinton allowed his fly to be exposed by a whore, and asked for it when Nixon did what other administration had done down thru' history; spy on the opposition...Why isn't deliberate murder, or sacrifice, of American Soldiers by Obama ( in his desire to level the playing field for his moslem broz. in history) obviously IMPEACHEABLE? ly SP

2009-10-08T20:12:00.001-07:00

How long must we endure this treason?

What would have happened if Patton had said, when told about the need for soldiers to stop the Nazi army when they had cut in half the forces of the United States (the action that motivated General Patton to create and carry out the Battle of the Bulge), “wait, I’ll have to have some time to think about it”, as President Obama has said to the General ‘on the ground’ in Afghanistan? This conflict has been going on for a while, he should have been on top of it already as a Commander in Chief.

This President is not qualified to be our Commander in Chief. He has not even been to boot camp. His education hasn’t even included the study of the statistics and tactics of war through the ages. Yet he is being asked to have the last word for our armed forces. Human nature is shown to have a great part in those patterns if studied. The CLOSEST he has gotten to army tactics is through casual contact with his biological father’s political action in dictator enslaved Africa. Every boy wants to be like his imaginary dad?

He has impoverished even our children with his ‘carpet bagger ‘ rhetoric. It is unbelievable that a slick con, a man with no experience in real life could have gulled so many in America. Even if it was only by a couple of percent of the voting population it scared the living daylights out of the legislators and turned them into globs of idiocy. SO it makes one wonder how many of the media are just terrified of losing their jobs if they tell the truth, or report what primary sources for scientific studies really state. Even could it be that they are just so vacuous that they can’t let themselves step out of what they have called the “Rock Star” aura of Obama…really, how empty. It is terribly obvious that he imagines he is a mogul in a movie. Now that the public has begun to realize all this, what is there left to do, an armed rebellion? We have so many unquestionable Czars now, it is like pre-war Russia. We are like a tank whose drivers have bailed out. SP

2009-10-08T20:10:00.000-07:00

Dear Folks, I recall the Medical Doctors of the governmental persuasion hyping other vaccines and drugs in the past, when they were highly respected and when they had more classes in philosophy and history required for their medical degree than currently! Perhaps they were more respectable then.

Unfortunately, some of those recommendations were disasters for the people who took them. I am just pointing out that medical doctors who push a drug, vaccine or therapy, based on possibly manipulated, or non-comprehensively designed tests, when they themselves neglect to study and to understand how the item works in the physical body are not real MDs, they are acting like idiot technicians.

Especially now, since we know for certain that these pharmaceutical tests come out as ‘positive‘, basically providing human guinea pigs for the next ten years, often finding out that they do cause cancer after all. And the reasons? Often an obvious effect on the metabolic actions caused by the recommended drug. Take the infamous Thalidomide, popularly given to pregnant women in the ‘50s. Crippling results, and this because Medical Doctors trusted the testing and marketing of the pharmaceutical companies who told them about it.

Take hormones that were not exactly like human hormones being given to people for things that bio-identical hormones could take care of. Simply because the pharmaceutical companies couldn’t patent and sell, get the money for, bio-identical product, people all over have been denied the hormone replacement therapy for depression and staving off cancer because they tested the fake stuff and it came out to indicate cancer production. They never have tested the hormone therapy is exactly like what the body has always made naturally, the bio-identical hormones.

People, be smart, do your own research and go to the websites of the medical community primarily commenting on new drugs and therapy. Go to Primary Sources! The mainstream media cannot be counted on to tell you the unbiased truth. It is possible that their investments, well hidden in layers of investment, or the investments of their employers, are vested in that particular drug.
And remember, Journalists are NOT required to have history or classics in their university degrees, so they have a limited point of view regarding patterns in human nature and response. They’re Marketeers!

Scarlet Periwinkle

Delusions of...grandeur?

2009-10-02T18:14:00.001-07:00

Another day in post election America…I guess our President, known usually as just “Obama”, has really taken his media given ‘Rock Star’ personality description to heart. Does he even think? In the last weeks he has stood at a podium declaring to the world that there is nothing special about America, and that he doesn’t want America to be thought of as anything special, especially because ,he believes, America has just done terrible things to the countries of the world up until his election as President. How does it follow that he should think himself capable of having clout to bring the Olympics to Chicago? As it happens, he got what he said he wanted! The Olympic committee took him at his word! They showed him that they are just fine with America having no special power to pull strings on the world stage. Anyway, now EVERYONE knows that America has no money to put ON the Olympics! Putting on the Olympics would just put us more into the control of our creditors…. historically ferocious Chinese and others.

Furthermore...to be an 'American' vs the world...

2009-10-01T19:31:00.000-07:00

I hope that we start requiring some cultural and historical education be a component of the lives of our representatives, so that we can realize that other cultures don’t necessarily believe that equality for all in law is desireable, or that all people are as valuable to God as THEY are. Other cultures don’t necessarily believe in treating another as you would like to be treated, that God prefers peace to destruction, or that God hates lying, and other typically western habitual ideas. Even if we aren’t religious in America, we have all grown up with King Arthur and Robin Hood.

Let us remember that most of the people that left their home countries to come to America before the early 1900’ came to escape religious or economic laws that restricted their ability to become ‘healthy, wealthy and wise‘. The laws in Europe were protectivist to the already wealthy ruling class. As an example you can check. In those days it was a physical life or death risk to come over the ocean to start again in a place where you had no ‘village’ connection for the most part. Our ancestors were, apparently extremely motivated to experience our freedom. May I point out that the people who stayed overseas, were not motivated and were, perhaps, less gregarious. They were definitely more accepting of the existing Empire governments.

They certainly were more accepting of Big Daddy Government. And we all know the statement “if you’re going to live in my house, you must live by my rules…” or something to that effect when we go from being a child to an adult in our parents’ houses! This culture, handed down from the parents, as in everything is apparent in the super change that has occurred in the acceptance of the idea that Government has the right to interfere in the home lives of the public. This in America SINCE the mass influx of eastern Europe after ‘the wall’ came down. If you’re used to big brother you are not aware of his presence as an insult. It used to be that litigation would occur ONLY IF there was a problem. Now we try to read the future and prevent things that go bump in the night, assuming the worst, and yet we cover our ears and eyes when it comes to enemies jealous of our prosperity and kudos of the past. It always seems easier to blame and fix ourselves, than to blame and have no power to fix others, without brute force. But if we don’t admit that there still are mean and greedy people in the world who need to be stopped, we will finally be stopped by those armed mean and greedy people. Remember we started WWII denying the horror, and only joined the fight after we had a direct hit!

Holocaust actually has a pre WWII meaning...

2009-10-01T19:10:00.000-07:00

A student of cultural/social anthropology I marvel at the ignorance of the representatives who have managed to be deposited in the Legislatures regarding the very existence of differing ideologies. American Legislators seem to think that their point of view (POV) is the basic POV of every human. They seem to think that their POV is just scientific fact. As if there is no other way to believe in a series of events ‘playing out’! For instance they don’t seem to get that there are peoples in the world that do not believe that judaeo/christian morality (set out by the ten commandments?) is sensible. They assume that these premise are inalienable rights of existence everywhere. They dismiss suicide bombers as too unreal to be a threat here IN America. In fact they don’t do their homework regarding the statement that ‘the Holocaust didn’t happen’ by the Arabic leader.

A “Holocaust” in actual definition is ‘a Holy Sacrifice to God by Fire”. It is not simply a name given to the Nazi murders of Jews during WWII. It was a name the Jews gave to that terrible action in the West. To a religious Arab person he cannot say that the murders of Jews in WWII is a Holy Sacrifice by Fire to God. He might be able to admit to Jews being killed en masse by the Nazis. He doesn’t see anything Holy about it. And if it were a Holocaust it would mean that the Jews were completely absolved of their sins as far a his priests and God are concerned, technically speaking. Ask this fellow instead if he knows that the Nazis killed millions of Jews in WWII. He might admit to that.