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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
murphmyers
Published Letters: 3
I wonder if the professionals that are critical of this procedure have ever spent a day, a week, or even a few hours taking care of someone so completely handicapped. It isn't a noble thing. It's just hard work. Baby are small and cute--so we endure the work and we know they will grow and not need the intense care they need when they are young. Large women with the capacity of a 3 month old--you have to change their tampons or pads. Their breast will ache and they won't understand why. Who would wish puberty on their 3 month old child?
Caring for severely disable people is ookey dirty 'real world" work.
Most doctors have never touch a bed pan, never changed a diaper for a patient (baby or adult). The critics reasoning seems theoretical and esoteric. The parents reasoning seems practical, and loving.
Okay here comes a cliche, sorry, but let them walk a mile in the parents of a grown-up sized baby for a week or so before they give their opinion.
Cool, this is the plan. "The Secret" will to be translated into Haitian Kreyol. Then Tap-Tap (Haitian taxi trucks) drivers will be conscripted to broadcast the text over a loud speaker. (They can visualize payment coming toward them as they proceed through the city.)
This can also be broadcast in the aids clinics and food distribution points.
The program should proceed for maybe three or four weeks. After that money and healing should be zooming to the island from all directions. Those unable to receive the blessings, because of "blocking thoughts," can be rounded up and sent to the Dominican Republic to work in fields and as domestics.
Tourism will flourish, Haitian cuisine will be the new rage. We will all eat goat and wear kerchiefs in our hair. Voodou will be the new religious right.
My God!
Why haven't we done this before?
Now everyone visualize money flowing to fund the project. Read set--beam!
Arizona also passed an anti-gay constitutional amendment. One of the houses on our street several blocks away from our house displayed a "Yes" 102 sign in their yard. Every time I passed the sign, I felt a very personal attack. As though they were targeting our family.
My partner and I have been in this neighborhood for 14 years. 7 years ago we adopted our son's from Haiti. The neighbors on our block and the others on our street that we know are very supportive and voted the "right way."
I wonder if the family with the sign had known us, if they would have paused before they voted for the ban on gay marriage.
The more we become know, the less the bigoted people will be able to dehumanizes us. Not sure how to do this--arrive to volunteer, walk in and announce, "Hi, I'm gay, I'm normal and I am so happy to be here working with all of you!" That might be a bit forward. I want to hope and believe that many of the people who voted on these discriminatory propositions don't know the gay and lesbian people in their lives.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
