Thursday, June 11, 2009
Pick Ups
Don't even think of slowing down. Just hope a child doesn't run in front of your vehicle. I drive a small compact 4 cylinder car and the red-necks driving huge pick-up trucks hate small vehicles. Most avenues here are 2 lanes each side,the speed limit is usually 35 miles. When I'm driving in the right lane at the speed limit, on occasion there will be a pick-up truck behind me,as I glance in the rear view mirror,he's edging closer to me. I increase my speed to 40,and he's still getting closer. I'm up to 43 miles per hour and that fruitcake is within inches of my bumper! Why doesn't he just pass me? Simple enough. Now I'm a nervous wreck, I could a speeding ticket,or if someone is walking across the street, I'd have to slow down and the red-neck slams into the rear of my car. Twice I had to turn right onto a street all the while hoping he doesn't hit me, just to get out of his way. I finally found a solution to this dilemma, I leave a bra on the front seat,and start waving it out my window,then most likely he'll pass me and I can drive safely again. The problem is this here Florida has no break down lanes like they have up north. I wish that only people originally from up north can be permitted to drive pick-up trucks.
Not Just This Here Florida.....Its Everywhere
(CBS) Some moments best forgotten are frozen in time.
In a photographic exhibit called "Witnesses to Hunger" the message is stunningly simple, reports CBS News correspondent Seth Doane.
One picture shows Imani Sullivan's son begging for food because she can't always afford to feed her kids.
"I am a witness to hunger every day," Imani, who lives in Philadelphia, says.
Her 9-year-old son De-Mire know what it's like to go without food.
"I cry … because I'm hungry," he tells Doane.
An estimated 15.5 million American kids don't have enough food - that's 3 million more than just two years ago.
Another picture shows Marinette Roman's youngest trying to get out of the house - back when they had one.
Home now is a single room in a Philadelphia shelter for Roman and her 13-year-old son Lewis.
Lewis, who's been losing weight, says he doesn't tell his friends about not having enough food.
"I just don't like … letting … nobody know that I'm hungry," he says.
But letting people know is the point of this exhibit.
It was Mariana Chilton's idea to give cameras to 42 lower-income Philadelphia mothers.
"It's a way of saying, 'My child is hungry. I've struggled and this is what my child looks like,'" says Chilton, of the Drexel University School of Public Health.
Their senator, Robert Casey, D-Pa., brought the women and their photographs to Capitol Hill and keeps a book of the pictures in his office.
"Is there anything that seems removed for you? Sitting in Washington looking at this book?" asks Doane. "It seems like two different worlds."
"Oh it is, sure," says Casey. "You could sit in a hearing for hours and you could read every statistic that would tell the story. But there's nothing like a picture and a witness."
Like a picture of Imani's pay stub. She's a full-time janitor but has an empty fridge. She photographed that too.
"How is it as a mom to realize that at points you can't really afford to feed your own kids?" asks Doane.
"Wow, that's a good question. It's heartbreaking," she says.
It is for Marinette too. Besides losing her house last summer, she lost both of her jobs. Already living at the edge, the recession pushed her over.
"To hear your kids say they're hungry, how does it make you feel?" asks Doane
"Horrible," she says, starting to cry. "Horrible because I always try to do my best … and it hurts that I have to put my kids in this situation."
That situation is six people sharing one room. Lewis says his stomach gets so empty he feels like throwing up.
In a photographic exhibit called "Witnesses to Hunger" the message is stunningly simple, reports CBS News correspondent Seth Doane.
One picture shows Imani Sullivan's son begging for food because she can't always afford to feed her kids.
"I am a witness to hunger every day," Imani, who lives in Philadelphia, says.
Her 9-year-old son De-Mire know what it's like to go without food.
"I cry … because I'm hungry," he tells Doane.
An estimated 15.5 million American kids don't have enough food - that's 3 million more than just two years ago.
Another picture shows Marinette Roman's youngest trying to get out of the house - back when they had one.
Home now is a single room in a Philadelphia shelter for Roman and her 13-year-old son Lewis.
Lewis, who's been losing weight, says he doesn't tell his friends about not having enough food.
"I just don't like … letting … nobody know that I'm hungry," he says.
But letting people know is the point of this exhibit.
It was Mariana Chilton's idea to give cameras to 42 lower-income Philadelphia mothers.
"It's a way of saying, 'My child is hungry. I've struggled and this is what my child looks like,'" says Chilton, of the Drexel University School of Public Health.
Their senator, Robert Casey, D-Pa., brought the women and their photographs to Capitol Hill and keeps a book of the pictures in his office.
"Is there anything that seems removed for you? Sitting in Washington looking at this book?" asks Doane. "It seems like two different worlds."
"Oh it is, sure," says Casey. "You could sit in a hearing for hours and you could read every statistic that would tell the story. But there's nothing like a picture and a witness."
Like a picture of Imani's pay stub. She's a full-time janitor but has an empty fridge. She photographed that too.
"How is it as a mom to realize that at points you can't really afford to feed your own kids?" asks Doane.
"Wow, that's a good question. It's heartbreaking," she says.
It is for Marinette too. Besides losing her house last summer, she lost both of her jobs. Already living at the edge, the recession pushed her over.
"To hear your kids say they're hungry, how does it make you feel?" asks Doane
"Horrible," she says, starting to cry. "Horrible because I always try to do my best … and it hurts that I have to put my kids in this situation."
That situation is six people sharing one room. Lewis says his stomach gets so empty he feels like throwing up.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
The Florida M.D.
Flashing neon signs. Huge billboards along the highways and busy streets. Doctors are advertising their expertise. They advertise in those little local pamphlets that have ads for yard sales and such. They even advertise in the city newspapers. Florida doctors can mold and recreate every part of your body to almost perfection. And I mean EVERY part of the body. These doctors can even remove those boobalones(that's what my niece calls them) that hang off of overweight women. They can change a 70 year old woman to look like she's 40 years old. Its a wonder that the motor vehicle department does not require a new photo for their license every time a person has a face change. I'm from up north,and that just does not go on there. Doctors in Connecticut do not advertise to that extent,they mostly advertise in the Yellow Pages. Any ads for plastic surgery,breast enhancements,botox,and liposuction is very mild,just a nuance of mention. My issue is that I'd like to find a general practitioner that has just a regular office waiting room that doesn't push facial products,vitamins,and weight loss products as you wait to be called into the examining room. There are more than enough dermatologists, herbal practitioners, and weight loss specialists. Why does a family doctor go overboard in his office,when all you want is a check up and or check on a few ailments? Well,I'm sure most everyone knows the answer to that question. Florida doctors can keep their neon signs,and huge advertisements. As for me, I'll keep my wrinkles, facial hairs, and boobalones. There's no way I would want a knife cut me just to look 25 years younger. And that's the way it is in This Here Florida.
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