keepuphope wrote:
One of my favorite patients was in his last days tryed so hard to get a hold of his son and daughter to ask forgiveness for being a drunken abuser to them growing up. He truly had remorse and sobbed. They never contacted him. So hard to watch him but he didn't die alone a few of us were there. Loving others is the most powerful action there is. And forgiveness takes strength and denying your own feelings. Alot of people can't do that.
Beautiful. The best beauty.
keepuphope wrote:
I was a hospice nurse for the last 5 years before I retired last July. My advice is make amends with any family members you have and really search out God and get to know Him. Don't live your short time on regrets. The things of this world don't really matter in the scheme of things just the people you love.Politics and the other background noise doesn't matter. I hope you have peace and renewed love until you go.
Thank you very much for your concern, it is obvious that you are a decent and caring person. I have a college degree in Hospice and worked in one for almost four years. Yet I forgot a basic of my training: self-care. I believed that my mind was cagey enough to thwart any piti-pot nonsense. Wrong!
From my experience, and many textbooks, people die pretty much as they have lived. A woman putting on heavy makeup at dawn or a angry ole man blaming God for his state, both with less than a month to live. What? It became too much. And now I am where they were. I still do not understand.
Being without air or sunlight, no more challenges to overcome and games to win, seems like hell. Eternal joy in Heaven? What's the bloody point? I had a good friend suggest in 1986 that I contemplate on Eternal Bliss after death forever. I don't think I ever lasted more than 6 seconds. The idea was completely appalling to me. No worries, no problems, no fights? Of what bloody good was heaven?
1964 fer cryin' out loud. I was still in HS. Invincibility, immortality were very much still on the table, even probable. Dreams of my future were low hanging fruit ready to be plucked. It's crazy! It just seems wrong. How did I get to this state?
Time, what an autocratic bitch. Yet growing old is not so bad, I sort of liked my 60s. Being old sucks. Especially if one has been so irresponsible about their health as I was. I tell friends and family alike that I do not have health problems, I have Consequence Problems. In my mind I was still 22 and life and possibilities were still endless. I was, after all, invincible. No need to be frugal or wise or cautious, just live. And the world sung in chorus with me. It will work out for the best in the end. But oops, the end is nigh, hoho (not boohoo)...and I helped.
Should I continue to strive for survival to avoid Heaven, for how long? Fight tooth and nail to somehow outfox death? Too funny. But the Irish culture in me has a convincing influence on me to put up me bloody dooks. Against all odds. It is being a man. Thinking otherwise is definitely cowardly. My thread on suicide a while ago all the Christians were opposed to giving up under any and all circumstances. I believe that Christ would have been far more compassionate.
My lung cancer has spread to my spine and liver. Chemo can delay my death by, perhaps, a few months while the usual and anticipated pain eats me alive, twisting every day into torture. Or give up, let nature, God, take the course. Hmm, how should I weigh this?
Strycker wrote:
Individual poverty and education are generational problems passed from parents to their children. There are many reasons why the south is behind. Agrarian economy, large minority population, 100 years of Democrat Jim Crow laws, a destroyed physical and social culture after the civil war that had to be rebuilt, resistance to change, bad federal, state and local government policies toward the south, overcoming a false stereotypical image and political narrative of southerners, etc, etc, etc.
Keep running the best and brightest out of progressive blue states with bad policies to relocate to red states and you will see the changes, gradually. Just as no government policies have fixed the problems in blue cities, no government policies are going to overcome the challenges in the South. Only time.
On a philosophical note, if the red states were to suddenly move to the top of your list wouldn't that mean that blue states would then be at the bottom? There is always someone on the bottom rung of the ladder to look down on. Someone you can point to with your virtue signaling and declare that they need your help.
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Hoho, "large minority population"? Your so-called philosophical note, it is logically unsound, or just stupid. And racist.
TexaCan wrote:
What a sad sad excuse for a supposed plea for help and compassion for the South! 👿. The only reason that you created this thread is because I posted how you really feel about the South a few days ago! Anyone that has been on this forum for a few years are very familiar with your elitist attitude against the South and Texas and your many insulting comments against both! You may fool a few members that aren’t familiar with your fake “love is all that matters” sermon, all the while spewing your hate filled rants, but they will soon realize just how fake some of your comments are!
You are not as clever as you think you are! You didn’t fool most of us! LOL!
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TexaCan wrote:
Rumi, you do realize that all 8 years of your comments are available for all to review…….right? LOL! Remember your racial insults to Southerners! This was just one of them! And then there are those on “Texist”…..I’ll save those for another day! 😉
“Ask what is worst about America, and the South takes center stage in all research and surveys and has for 4 decades and perhaps more. 5 or 7 of them are the least educated, poorest, and have the worst living standards …….Something is deeply wrong in these states, almost like the PLAGUE!”
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Are you that dense? Of course it is. Truth is not taking sides. What I published are facts. Deal with it! The hatred is in your heart.
FallenOak wrote:
I just made a comment but I believe that both of the major parties are corrupt and don't give a damn about anything except their own power. It is no longer about the common man but about the power for the elites.
You are right. What do we do?
One year after he left office, former President Donald Trump's legal woes continue to mount.
This week alone, the Supreme Court denied the former president’s request to prevent the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot from obtaining White House records concerning Trump’s activities leading up to and during the insurrection. The same committee also subpoenaed Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other attorneys involved in pushing baseless voter fraud claims in Trump's effort to overturn the election, and asked his daughter Ivanka to cooperate voluntarily in its probe.
Meanwhile, a Georgia district attorney looking into Trump’s attempts to overturn the election results in the state requested a special grand jury to aid in that investigation. And the New York State attorney general said this week that she has uncovered "significant evidence" of fraud in her ongoing investigations into the Trump Organization's business practices.
The Jan. 6 committee’s latest subpoenas — and revelations
On Tuesday, the committee issued subpoenas to the Trump legal team that worked to overturn the 2020 results, including Giuliani, a former New York City mayor.
“The four individuals we’ve subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes,” committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement.
In addition to Giuliani, the committee subpoenaed Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, attorney and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell and Boris Epshteyn, a top political strategist for the former president. Epshteyn called the effort a “witch hunt” in a tweet responding to the news.
In the aftermath of the November 2020 election, Trump’s team filed dozens of lawsuits, many of which were struck down within days, and held numerous press events where they baselessly disputed the legitimacy of the election.
On Wednesday, the committee subpoenaed two leaders of a white nationalist group that wants Trump to “rule for life.” The next day, the committee sent a letter requesting the cooperation of Ivanka Trump, the former president’s elder daughter, who served as a senior adviser during his time in the White House.
“We are particularly interested in discussions inside the White House and with the President before and after his 2:24 p.m. tweet,” stated the letter, a reference to Trump’s Jan. 6 tweet castigating his vice president, Mike Pence, for not joining the effort to reverse the election results.
“Testimony obtained by the Select Committee indicates that members of the White House staff requested your assistance on multiple occasions to intervene in an attempt to persuade President Trump to address the ongoing lawlessness and violence on Capitol Hill.”
That letter detailed the chaos at the White House during the violence at the Capitol and noted that Trump recorded multiple versions of a video in which he belatedly told his supporters to go home late on the afternoon of Jan. 6.
The committee said it was looking into the then president’s specific actions during the afternoon hours, including whether he had called for National Guard deployment to help stop the rioters.
The Supreme Court rejection
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court voted 8-1 against blocking the release of White House records concerning Trump’s activities leading up to and during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The high court’s decision marked the latest hurdle to the former president’s bid to claim executive privilege over hundreds of pages of documents sought by the Jan. 6 committee. In November, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that Trump did not have the authority to overrule current President Biden, who has so far chosen to waive executive privilege over the records requested by the committee.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., affirmed that ruling in December, prompting Trump to submit an emergency request last month asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
But nearly all of the justices ruled against Trump’s request on Wednesday, with only Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting.
Thompson and the committee’s vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., praised the Supreme Court decision in a statement Wednesday evening, calling it “a victory for the rule of law and American democracy.”
On Friday, Politico reported that one of the documents Trump was attempting to shield was a draft executive order calling for the seizure of voting machines.
Election interference in Georgia
Thursday also brought a new development in an investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 results in the state of Georgia. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made the request in a letter to the chief judge of the county’s Superior Court.
Fulton County is Georgia’s most populous county and is home to Atlanta, the state capital and the center of Trump’s push to flip the presidential race there. Biden won Georgia by a narrow margin, becoming the first Democrat to carry the state since 1992. Willis, a Democrat, cited the lack of cooperation from witnesses, including the state’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who “refused to cooperate with the investigation absent a subpoena requiring their testimony.” The special grand jury would be empaneled longer than normal and would focus solely on the case, but would not be able to issue indictments.
The inquiry started last February and centered on a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Raffensperger. Trump urged Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” that made up Biden’s winning margin in the state. Raffensperger refused, and has been the target of Trump’s ire ever since.
Earlier this month, Willis told the Associated Press her team was making progress in the case but was not rushing things.
“I believe in 2022 a decision will be made in that case,” she said. “I certainly think that in the first half of the year that decisions will be made.”
In a statement responding to the news, Trump said he “didn’t say anything wrong” in his “perfect” call with Raffensperger. He also repeated his baseless claims of election fraud, saying that the special grand jury “should be looking into ... the large scale voter fraud that took place in Georgia.”
In an interview with Fox News Thursday afternoon, Raffensperger called Democrats the “party of stolen elections claims” and said Willis was “trying to score some cheap political points with her Democrat friends.”
The business inquiry in New York
On Tuesday, New York State Attorney General Letitia James moved forward with an attempt to get Trump, son Donald Trump Jr. and daughter Ivanka Trump to comply with her ongoing investigation into Trump Organization finances.
James’s office filed court papers in response to the Trump family’s attempts to avoid testifying in the probe. Last month, the former president filed suit against James in a bid to thwart her investigations into his business practices.
“We have uncovered significant evidence indicating that the Trump Organization used fraudulent and misleading asset valuations on multiple properties to obtain economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions for years,” James, a Democrat, tweeted.
“Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump have all been closely involved in the transactions in question, so we won’t tolerate their attempts to evade testifying in this investigation.”
"We will not be deterred in our efforts to continue this investigation, uncover the facts, and pursue justice, no matter how many roadblocks Mr. Trump and his family throw in our way,” James added. “No one is above the law.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-legal-woes-mount-georgia-new-york-jan-6-supreme-court-190541516.html
FallenOak wrote:
Lincoln tried to rescue the South after the War but he was killed by a Dem and Andrew Johnson a Dem gave them a very harsh reconstruction period. It's just what the history books used to teach.
And what are you saying now that they are Red States and persist as the poorest, least educated, and unhealthiest states?
WinkyTink wrote:
Why do large metros, essentially in the north or coastal, dominate murder, rape, theft, robbery and other scumbaggery ??? Democrat domininant?
Really? Okay, find a top ten list of states that "dominate murder, rape, theft, robbery and other scumbaggery."
Try here and find in the top 15 of the worst states for crime 13 of then are pure Red. https://www.safehome.org/resources/americas-most-dangerous-states/