THE UNITED STATES OF ALEC:

THE UNITED STATES OF ALEC:

THE UNITED STATES OF ALEC = THE AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL!
SHARES BILLS BETWEEN STATES THAT CAN NOT BE COMPLETED BY THE US HOUSE OF REPRESNTATIVES

( I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY NOTHING GOT DONE?)
SO ON BEHALF OF CORPORATE UNITED STATES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THESE CORPORATIONS ALSO.
HEY, THIS COULD HAPPEN IN CANADA AS WELL, PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO! AS YOU GOT TO KNOW!!!

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/27/the_united_states_of_alec_bill

"The United States of ALEC," a special report by legendary journalist Bill Moyers on how the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council has helped corporate America propose and even draft legislation for states across the country. ALEC brings together major U.S. corporations and right-wing legislators to craft and vote on "model" bills behind closed doors. It has come under increasing scrutiny for its role in promoting "stand your ground" gun laws, voter suppression bills, union-busting policies and other controversial legislation. Although billing itself as a "nonpartisan public-private partnership," ALEC is actually a national network of state politicians and powerful corporations principally concerned with increasing corporate profits without public scrutiny. Moyers’ special will air this weekend on Moyers & Company,

This F.Y.I. is posted by Sir Richard…

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SO AT THE RISK OF OFFENDING - SOME

SO AT THE RISK OF OFFENDING - SOME WELL-MEANING PEOPLE, HERE ARE 6 THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER - SAY TO A FRIEND OR RELATIVE, OR COLLEAGUE. WHOM - IS CANCER SICK AND 4 THINGS YOU CAN SAY!
ONE = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ab8BOu4LE
First, the Nevers:
1. WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP? Most Cancer patients I know grow to hate this ubiquitous, if heartfelt question because it puts the burden back on them. As a three-time cancer survivor, explained: “The patient is never going to tell you. They don’t want to feel vulnerable.” Instead, just do something for the patient and the more mundane the better, because those are the tasks that add up. Want to be really helpful? Clean out my fridge, replace my light bulbs, un-pot my dead plants, change my oil, help vacuum, mow my lawn, do my snowy walks.
2. MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU. In my experience, some people think about you, which is nice. Others pray for you, which is equally comforting. The majority of people who say they’re sending “thoughts and prayers” are just falling back on a mindless cliché and yes I know that there are those who really pray and “Thank You”. It’s time to retire this hackneyed expression to the final resting place of platitudes, alongside “I’m stepping down to spend more time with my family,” or “It’s not you, it’s me.”
3. DID YOU TRY THAT MANGO COLONIC I RECOMMENDED? I was stunned by the number of friends and strangers alike who inundated me with tips for miracle tonics, Chinese herbs or Swedish visualization exercises. At times, my in-box was like a Grand Ole Opry lineup of 1940s Appalachian black-magic potions. “If you put tumeric under your fingernails, and pepper on your neck, and take a grapefruit shower, you’ll feel better. It cured my Uncle Louie.”
Even worse, the recommenders follow up! A former marketing executive who’s survived seven recurrences of a Sarcoma Cancer and is who is also compiling a book, “I Know You Mean Well, but ...,” was approached recently at a store.
“You don’t know me, but you’re friends with my wife,” the man said, before asking why she wasn’t wearing the kabbalah bracelet they bought her in Israel?
4. EVERYTHING WILL BE O.K. Unsure what to say, many well-wishers fall back on chirpy feel-goodisms. But these banalities are more often designed to allay the fears of the caregiver than those of the patient. As one friend who recently had Brain Cancer Surgery complained: “I got a lot of ‘chin ups,’ ‘you’re going to get better.’ I kept thinking: You haven’t seen the scans. That’s not what the doctor is saying.” The simple truth is, unless you’re a medical professional, resist playing Nostradamus.
5. HOW ARE WE TODAY? Every adult Cancer patient I know complains about being infantilized. The woman who had breast cancer, is working on a book, “How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick.” It includes a list of “no-no’s” that treat ailing grown-ups like children. When the adult patient has living parents, many Parents, mothers in particular fall back on old patterns, from overstepping their boundaries to making bologna sandwiches when the patient hasn’t eaten them since childhood. “Just because someone is dealing with a physical illness, doesn’t diminish their mental capacity.”
6. YOU LOOK GREAT. Nice try, but patients can see right through this chestnut. We know we’re gaunt, our hair is falling out in clumps, our colostomy bag needs emptying. The only thing this hollow expression conveys is that you’re focusing on how we appear. “When people comment on my appearance, it reminds me that I don’t look good.”
Next time you want to compliment a patient’s appearance, keep this in mind: Vanity is the only part of the human anatomy that is immune to Cancer.
SO WHAT DO CANCER PATIENTS LIKE TO HEAR? HERE ARE 4 SUGGESTIONS:
1. DON’T WRITE ME BACK. All patients get overwhelmed with the burden of keeping everyone informed (except for myself as that is how I vent!), being coddled and feeling appreciated. Social networking, while offering some relief, often increases the expectation of round-the-clock updates. To get around this problem, if you’re not chatty like myself you could appointed a “minister of information,” whose job it was to disseminate news, deflect queries and generally be polite when you do not have the energy or inclination to be. Then you can do your part, too; if you do drop off a fruitcake or take the dog for a walk, insist the patient not write you a thank-you note. Chicken soup is not a wedding gift; it shouldn’t come with added stress.
2. I SHOULD BE GOING NOW. You’ll never go wrong by uttering these five words while visiting someone who’s sick. As my wife and I have observed of such visits, don’t overstay your welcome. We recommend 20 minutes, even less if the patient is tired or in pain and while in the hospital or at their home, wash a few dishes or tidy up the room. Again, you can take out the trash when you leave. Just saying?
3. WOULD YOU LIKE SOME GOSSIP? One sure-fire tip: a slight change of topic goes a long way. Patients are often sick of talking about their illness, except me. As most have to do that with our doctors, nurses and insurance henchmen over and over. By all means, follow the lead of the individual, but sometimes ignoring the elephant in the room is just the right medicine. Even someone recovering from surgery has an opinion about the starlet’s affair, the underdog in the playoffs or the big election around the corner.
4. I LOVE YOU. When all else fails, simple, direct emotion is the most powerful gift you can give a loved one going through pain. It doesn’t need to be ornamented. It just needs to be real. “I’m sorry you have to go through this.” “I hate to see you suffer.” “You mean a lot to me.” The fact that so few of us do this makes it even more meaningful.
Not long ago, I reached out to my friend’s sister, who had endured three surgeries in the previous six months for a tumor. She was still undergoing much and it upsets her that she cannot return to her work. What is most important her, I wondered?
“I liked having the family around,” she said, referring to her siblings and their spouses; “But I had a lot of issues with my room seeming like a party and my not being in a place where I could be down if I wanted.”
The most helpful tip she got? “People reminded me that I had a free ‘No’ clause whenever I needed it. Especially as someone who tends to please, that was helpful.”
So in the end, what would she say to someone like her sister who leaned over and asked for advice?
“Fully embrace the vulnerability of the situation,” she said. “I would never have gotten through it if I hadn’t allowed people in.”
That even included old friends, like myself who took the time to listen to what she wanted to say, even if it was not positive and I gave her the space to cry while I visited and yes; “I allowed her to allow herself to NOT be Positive if she did not want to as many times as she wanted!” being herself with her Cancer and any other medical problems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn3osBdoCiI
Posted for you to read by Sir Richard…
With Love to you all and all that heaven will allow you!
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F.Y.I.: CANADA'S HIGHWAY OF TEARS!

 

F.Y.I.: CANADA'S HIGHWAY OF TEARS!

A convicted killer is responsible for the 1974 murder of a teenaged girl, which is a significant break in RCMP's task force investigation into 18 missing other and murdered women in the province of British Columbia. 

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/police-say-u-s-convict-responsible-for-b-c-teen-s-death-1.970633 

Posted for you by Sir Richard...

Richard Abbenbroek...

Team H.O.P.E. USA/CANADA Volunteer 

http://teamhope.org/who.html 

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Volunteer 

http://www.missingkids.com/ 

Missing Kids. CA 

http://missingkids.ca/app/en

PATRICIA

ANOTHER LADY IN MY LIFE WHO PAST AWAY AND I FORGET ME NOT!

PATRICIA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urtxZ4PyMyc

Patricia – My very first girlfriend whose Dad was named Richard and whom she adored. Then there was me and I had the right name eh? Patricia then married a Richard (Not I) had 2 children and sadly Patricia past away before her Dad did from a childhood spinal disease that kills in adulthood.

I found out about Patricia’s passing one late night in 1991, when her mother called me out of the blue.

Just recovering my youngest daughter from Parental Child Abduction and at that moment I was sleeping. I did not believe this phone call for I was getting many malicious calls and late at night calls from a sad group of people bent on torment.

So when this call came in I thought it was someone who also was making a joke or being cruel to me to have me hear such BAD NEWS. To say the least I was not very friendly, also I could not attend the funeral nor have I ever visited Patricia’s grave as even to this day I would just break apart.

So anyway, I believe that Pat is not there anyhow, as this how I rationalize my disrespect, for I believe Patricia is also now in heaven.

Patricia’s name was shortened to become one of my daughter’s middle names, Tricia.

With LOVE to you all and all that heaven will allow!

From Sir Richard…

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SIMMONE.

 

SIMMONE. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIv1MAClQhk 
We met in ‘68 at school, on a programed outing and what we had in common was far more than just a few hidden cigarettes.
Though we played at Love and Fought as I peppered pork chops, that no-one could eat.
We came back together again and again and again and yet?
Then due to substance abuse we drifted apart as if we had never did meet.

Safer, for us both I guess mostly for me but as for you Simmone.
Ye continued sailing on like a ship in a storm.
Searching for that bliss from substance abuse which never
satisfies but you’re on a quest, is the message it sends.
Substance abuse, yes you chose it for it did not surprise me the
way it roped you into your life’s end.
 
Though I always hoped that one day you would be able to control your addiction.
Then something happened far beyond my prediction.
As I was informed from family; “Did you hear about Simmone?”, and what happened to her in another town?

“Well, she had passed away, the addiction killed her, Simmone is gone!”

Then they spread her ashes, down near the Bow River were Simmone and I took walks as the leaves turned brown.

By Sir Richard

With Love to you all and all that heaven will allow…

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GOOD MORNING! eh?

GOOD MORNING! eh?

SO YOU GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY AND WHAT ABOUT YOU?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9MTnwzFTRM

"TO SERVE"
If you want to be important—wonderful.
If you want to be recognized—wonderful.
If you want to be great—wonderful.

But recognize, that he who is greatest among you, shall be your servant.
That's a new definition of greatness.

And this morning, the thing that I like about it:
by giving that definition of greatness,
it means,
that everybody can be great,
because everybody can serve.

You don't have to have a college degree, to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree, to serve.
You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle, to serve.
You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity, to serve.
You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics, to serve.

You only need a heart full of grace,
a soul generated by love.
And you can be that servant!

**"TO SERVE" is an excerpt from
"The Drum Major Instinct" Sermon
Delivered by - Rev Martin Luther King Jr.
***************
Posted for you by Sir Richard...
A knight in thy service of the King of Kings.
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ANNA A MEMORY

 

ANNA – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g2WsBkH9ag It is said about me and I got to admit that is very true. That I always seem to fall head over heels in Love with Women whom I really admire and were about as obtainable for me, as myself taking a stroll upon the surface of the Moon. Well it is more than true actually and I can list (to maybe the embarrassment of many), of those Women in my life that fit that reality. Also, there are those on that list that I thought with “All My Loving”; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtDv-HDJYCQ that I could easily make them feel once again whole or that I could help them and change their life’s horrors. Some I even married and this was an even worse mistake for me and them but a learning curve none the less!

So back to ANNA; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KuBFslJ6cs for she was a beauty that I Loved from afar but she might as well been on the nearest star. ANNA of course chose not me but a real Carburetor Head, Rockabilly with a Little Gob will do ya hair cut. Rat tail comb, tight jeans and Beatle boots with Cuban heals and worst of all -- he had a car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_fs32LRXo

I did not stand a chance, just like a snow ball in a Chinook, I faded away from ANNA’s life and mind…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPLE6E_5cpo Yeah, I took it hard and continued with my 15 year old existence. Of my Rock Bands, smoking pot, hanging out, falling head over heels for other women, Air Cadets and Screw Driver Drinks/Cigarettes with friends on Nose Hill. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45T4Fm0peKU

Then the impossible happened, ANNA rang me up and said she had a surprise to show me. Well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJd37cLEifg away I went! After all this must mean that Mr. Grease Ball was yet now GONE! Yesssssssssssssssssss!!  Horray for Me!!!   ANNA had a surprise all right; a brand new baby boy (Grease Balls) and though I am a sucker for babies, then I was only 15 and being a Dad, well it was just not my time!  ANNA could see my thoughts on my face and she said was it because she had a baby? So as I could never lie to her, I told her the truth and with much tears in our eyes we parted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr10OiZ-d2I

Now at this stage of my life, as I look back at all who I Loved, whom I still Love and in reality I never stopped LOVING any of you at all even ANNA and even those who cannot read this now.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ongMIGH7rJ8

For I discovered the above just as time has changed us all and ohhh, one more bit of news; about my hard to get fantasy Women. One finally saw that they wanted me the same way I wanted her and we have been together ever since, that is my current wife. :)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXb7PbDdBh4

A memory by Sir Richard…

With Love to you all and all that heaven will allow!

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Photo by Sir Richard.

Beatles Songs Used:

Anna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g2WsBkH9ag

All My Loving http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g2WsBkH9ag

All I’ve Got To Do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KuBFslJ6cs

This Boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_fs32LRXo

I’ll Call your Name http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPLE6E_5cpo

Don’t Bother Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45T4Fm0peKU

Slow Down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJd37cLEifg

Not a second Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr10OiZ-d2I

Please Please Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ongMIGH7rJ8

Every Little Thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXb7PbDdBh4