Why the name Ranch Chimp? it was in humour because, science says that humans have similar DNA to a chimpanzee,so I felt some way related biologically to a chimpanzee. 2nd, everytime I was out of Texas on a vacation or for whatever reason I’m always asked things like, do I live on a ranch?,or have cattle? so I commonly call Dallas the Ranch. "Politically Depressed" was also humour inspired by the 1993- 2002 Bill Maher TV/ tele show "Politically Incorrect".
Of course ... the "Man in Black" is a legend ... not just in Country either ... and a lyricist and American poet as far as I'm concerned ... I love Johnny Cash, and just happened to find one of my favourites of his playing "A Boy Named Sue" on YouTube ... The one and only Johnny Cash!
Johnny Cash- A Boy Named Sue (Live in Denmark) ... Thanx to JOHNNY CASH VEVO
I have decided to post some of my favourite artist's as far as music is concerned recently ... and one that I must post here at the beginning would have to be Ms. Diamanda Galas ... one of my favourite live performer's ... who is not only a composer but vocalist of Jazz as well as Opera ... and a fine pianist as well, who has brought warmth and content to my mind/ soul and heart over the many year's with her art and beauty ....
Diamanda Galas- Let's Not Chat About Despair ... Thanx to SIREN OF THE SEAS
This is indeed quite unusual. I have heard of kid's pulling many stunt's like tummy ache's or such to avoid the sermon's of the week across our great land, but stealing a car and taking officer's on a high speed chase...then running in panic from the authorities even on foot...is very desperate.One could assume many thing's ... for one ...who was the Minister? Or perhap's could the kid just have realized that there wasnt no Vaseline left in the medicine cabinet...and mom and pop because of the economic crisis couldnt afford any?(just kidding)However ... it does bring alot of question's to mind. Check out this getaway...and GOD BLESS AMERICA!! :)
I wanted to post another song of Mark's here which was his initial motivation for creating his stage title as "MC 900FT JESUS" ... which was I believe around 1988/1989 (I first met Mark had to be around 1980? when he played in a local rock band here in Dallas, and when he was a store clerk at VVV Records) ... but if I'm correct here ... I would say it was 1987 when Oral Roberts (Evangelical Minister and Founder of Oral Roberts University up in Oklahoma) said that this 900FT tall Jesus visited him ... and told him ... if he didnt raise some $8 million dollar's or so by a certain time frame of just several month's ... Jesus was coming back to take him away ... death. It's been quite a few year's since Mark mentioned the story ... so I may have missed a piece or so. But this song is about Jesus coming back to take the Minister to a visit with the Grim Reaper. The gentleman on the left in this video photo is Pat Rollins "DJ ZERO", who does mixing and turntables for the music ... Mark of course is 900FT JESUS ... and obvious from his picture here, enjoy. : )
First of all I understand that this video clip is about how the security at this school isnt supplied equally because they feel since it is a minority school .. the cost's or fair distribution or employment of such has been denied ... or let's just say "inadequate" for those who are too sensitive to such blunt description's in our oversensitive PC society, which is a problem all over the nation ... especially in even your "liberated" cities that constantly talk how diverse they are ... and "fair". But I sense more to this.
Friend of Richmond High gang rape victim blasts school officials says whites are minority Flock ... Thanx to REPUBLICAN RJL
After watching this video of Kami Baker speaking out on the security of Richland High School ... I cant help to sense that there is some race tension here, at least to a degree. I am sure that I am not the only one who senses that ... I mean ... this girl is pretty shook up ... and I can understand from the brutal experience that her friend fell victim to. I mean ... from what I have read ... this girl was not only raped ... but near death in critical condition when she was air lifted to the hospital, which tell's me it must have been severe as far as physical assault, even foreign object's not specified used on the girl sexually. From what I read ... possibly "murder" was acceptable to these young men as well ... because according to report's ... if this didnt get broken up when it did ... this girl may have well been a corpse instead of a living testimony.
I understand when you have a rape victim that is a minor ... it is kept quiet as to any information on the victim ... because of age. But for over an hour I have been all over info on this girl online ... or just anything about her ... or even her familia, I havent found one bit of info on her ... or even her race for that matter. This is about as tight lipped a case that I have seen... and it seem's as well...that even popular media has avoided some question's and answer's like the plague on this. After hearing Ms. Baker I wonder if the victim of this offense was white? Does "race" play an issue? Well ... it absolutely does ... I mean ... let's say if the victim was of color ... and the suspected assailant's were white ... well ... every network would be talking about this endlessly ... especially the left/ liberal slanted media ... yelling "racism" ... "nazi men raping women of color" or what have you ... you get the picture. Also ... if this is a white victim ... and the suspect's are mostly of color ... should this qualify as a "hate crime"? ... in my opinion absolutely. Or can only "hate crime's" be charged to white heterosexual male's? My point is ... to be truely racially unbiased ... you must be "true" and "honest" ... or else ... you are not for real ... but only a cowardly phoney with a mouth and no spine or courage ... something that our society is saturated with.
But I have no idea what the race of the girl is ... for all I know she could be black ... after all ... it is a minority majority school. But I just felt as if there was some racial tension here after listening to Ms.Baker ... not saying she is a racist ... but rather that she feel's she may be a victim of racism is all. No ... no one I can find on the internet is talking a peep about Ms.Baker's statement, or any of this for that matter ... and as you can see ... when CNN grabbed her testimony ... they labeled it as strictly talking about security ... again no mention of her race remark. I feel if she was a girl of color ... every network and liberal blogger coast to coast would have a mouthful to say and rant about it ... is this not true? And dont think for a moment that I am defending conservative media/ blogger's ... they are some of the biggest sniveling pussies of the 21st century ... and play race in everything or else gender. Hell they will choose candidate's strictly on race or gender more than the liberal's.
Also ... this is America ... and all these suspect's ARE INNOCENT until proven to have knowingly and willingly committed any offenses. However ... if any of these men are found guilty ... dont start sniveling about their background and being too young to know and all the other crap. And if they are truely men with any spine or dignity at all ... they will if found guilty ... not whine like a pussy during their pre- sentencing arguement's like coward's ... but stand and face the consequence's of their action's without begging a court or jury for mercy. When you participate in sexually assaulting and beating the crap out of some young girl probably physically smaller than you are ... and do this for over 2 hour's ... you know exactly what you are doing. There should be NO MERCY ... the victim had none.
That's the REALITY!!
POST NOTE: No ... I have not checked YouTube yet on this ... I usually just go to YouTube for entertainment. But I have checked much of the mainstream news and other media. After all ... this is a mainstream issue ... is it not?
This is just an ole acquaintance that goes back year's ... like back in the 1980's. Even though he is called MC900 ... I am just going to call him Mark ... cause that's all I ever known him by (Mark Griffin). Mark originally was into basically jazz and rock ... and tried his touch at a little hip- hop rap style music with another fella called DJ Zero out of Dallas' Oak Cliff...actually his name is Pat Rollins ... and Mark came up with this ... which was alot of fun back in the day! GO MARK!! :)
MC 900Ft Jesus- KILLER INSIDE ME (1991) ... Thanx to PYENAPPLE
A little history for the record on Mark's title "MC 900 FT JESUS". If anyone can recall ... a christian evangelical minister by the name of Oral Roberts one day announced in the media ... that Jesus appeared to him while he was sleeping, and told him if he did not raise so many million's of dollar's by a certain date ... Jesus said he would kill him. Minister Roberts described this Jesus Christ as being as tall as 3 football field's put together ... a football field is 100 Yd's ... 3 would be 300 Yd's or 900 Ft. That's where Mark came up with the name. And wrote one of his first song's about Minister Roberts experience ... called "Too Bad (your gonna die now)" which can be linked to above. Which is about when Jesus re- appear's to Minister Roberts because he hadnt raised the money ... to ... well ... kill the Minister like a "Thief in the Night". This is not to insult anyones concept of Jesus or anything else ... it was strictly done as satire because of the ridiculous story the Minister laid on the public is all.
Anyway ... Congratulations Mark on the major record contract ......
Wanting to post a good song for the season ... I couldnt help to post one of my favourite live performer's ... the musician/composer, actor, artist, and journalist born and bred in America's Heartland,Canton,OH "Marilyn Manson" (aka Brian Warner). Mr.Warner I can not say enough about ...the composition of their music is 2nd to none, and a theatrical live performance that warm's the mind/soul! Thank You Sir!
This is Halloween- Marilyn Manson ... Thanx to TRENTCANTDANCE
Little folklore in the tradition ..."Halloween" is traditionally known as "Samuin" or "Samhain" ... meaning the "Summer's End" Ancient Celtic Halloween when the door to the other world is opened for one night."Saman" is the Druidic "Angel of Death". Also known as the Druid's festival of Harvest Fire. Jack-O-Lantern is said to have been the emblem of a "spirit",who had been refused entrance to both Heaven and Hell.
I might have not posted this at first ... but as I was watching CNN as part of my daily online ritual...I couldnt help to notice this woman's face ... I happen to be friend's with her familia!! The blonde girl on the left is a friend's daughter as well!! In fact ... most of this familia DOES speak ENGLISH.
This is absolutely uncalled for ... and almost unbelievable that this would even happen in the City of Dallas especially! Where in Dallas dont you find "spanish" language? Dallas and the Metroplex is one of the largest latino metropolitain area's in the nation...the Metroplex has about 2 million latino's...and those are "legal" one's! You damn right there need's to be an investigation ... this is not just because the officer's DIDNT know ... this is BS! You dont "work" in a town like Dallas,Houston,Los Angeles,or even Miami for that matter and say .."I didnt know..." This is nothing but more milking of money through citation's ... because you cannot tell me...that after almost 40 of these citation's being issued and paid...that someone in "Fine's/Docket's" Division DIDNT see this! An ex-girlfriend was a night shift supervisor of this division as well for DPD (Back in the late 1970's) ... her name is Deanna Perez.... and YES...she is Mexicano Americano TexMex, born and raised in Dallas' original Little Mexico off Hines Blvd. Ms.Mondragon and familia are Dallasite's as well.
I have no doubt that Chief David Kunkle will get to the bottom of this, he is one of the most fair and straight up Police Chief's in this country. I would also like to question the department's Deputy Chief's as well.Dallas Police Dept. has 7 division's each ran by a Deputy Chief individually ... which are Division's of Dallas as follow's ... Central, Northeast, Southeast, South Central, Southwest, Northwest, and North Central. Each deputy Chief is responsible for his/her Division, and this had to be noticed somewhere's in some division with almost 40 citation's issued ...where it say's in "writing" that the offense is "not speaking english" and the fine is over $200 dollar's. No way... can you overlook these kind's of citation's unless your not paying atencion to your goddamn job!
ABSOLUTELY Ms.Mondragon should be reimbersed for her post stress hospital stay..and a gratuity ... as well as all other's for even if they lost any time at work over this. You dont do this to tax paying citizen's... and believe me...Ms.Mondragon's familia are those of the tax paying working citizen's of this city. Many citizen's in the City of Dallas and surrounding communities DONT know english very well. It's not really needed to know fluently in a town like this anyway's. Her ticket for driving without a liscense is citatable and ligit...and for the illegal U-Turn ticket .. but for not speaking english is just gross injustice.
Best of Luck Ms.Ernestina!
POST NOTE: I also would like to know exactly who wrote all these ticket's? Whether if they were actual DPD Traffic Unit officer's,or Dallas County Constable, or DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)Transit officer's ... AND if or not any money similar to commission's or royalties were paid to citating officer's if so. For the last few year's if you live in Dallas ...how many time's have you noticed actual DPD officer's writing traffic citation's? If you recall...back a few year's ago because of crime and shortage's of new recruit's and officer's, they stopped DPD unit's from responding to wreck's unless there was severe injuries/fatalities, and from writing traffic citation's. They started having Dallas County Constable's and DART Transit Unit's writing traffic ticket's to take the burden off DPD officer's, it is also why several year's ago they started the "311" emergency line .. to stop people from calling "911" for non life threatening emergencies as well.Notice also on the ticket in the video ... that the "offense" was wrote in by hand and pen.The reason I point this out...is because offenses are already pre-printed on the back of part of the ticket and coded for use, to use the code's, so you can look at the attachment sheet for code and instruction's for mailing fine's. Another question I would want to ask...is if there was a law/fine for non english speaking driver's...why do the traffic court's as well as the Fines/Docket's Bureau literature,assistance clerk's,court officer's...and every department that handle's and collect's your money are "spanish" speaking? Kind of odd... is it not? I have several question's.
What your telling me is...you can go into the traffic court's...speak spanish and have interpreter's, and even spanish speaking judge's and prosecutor's...you can call in for info on your citation...and have spanish speaking customer service, you can obtain literature for your fine's and info which is given in "spanish", have spanish speaking clerk's at money transaction window's to "COLLECT YOUR MONEY"...and you can talk "spanish" in any court in the City of Dallas...but your telling me...you cant speak "spanish" when operating a "vehicle"? Until you can prove otherwise to me... I see this crap as nothing more than a goddamn scam to milk more money from working class latino's!! .....Enough said on this BS!!
I wanted to post this video in particular (updated, video replaced) ... because this is yet another scam that is very widespread in the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex that you just never hear about because most of it is never investigated because the amount's are significantly smaller ... but it is widespread.
I play the multi- million Texas Lotto drawing only ... and I play every drawing ... which is on wednesday's and saturday's. I've won a few thousand and lost a few thousand here and there ... I enjoy it ... but I dont play the array of other lotto game's, and I will play number's on NFL football game's as well ... but that's the extent of any gambling that I do ... just small time entertainment. But for year's ... I have alway's checked my own lotto number's. Back over a decade or so ago ... I could see the scam's that were played by store clerk's ... that were basically no different than shortchanging customer's. Many simply DONT self check their ticket's ... they go into a store and ask for their ticket to be scanned by the clerk ... the clerk can tell them anything they want ... UNLESS you ask to VERIFY the ticket ... they will tell you if and what you may have hit. They wont tell you nothing ... because they would have to return the non- winning ticket to you ... so you may have a $500 winning ticket ... and the clerk can just tell you ... you hit $10 buck's or so ... they give you the cash ... your happy because it cost a buck for the ticket ... you walk away with a smile or buy a couple more ... but you just got shortchanged for $490 buck's.
Believe me ... this happen's all over the metroplex daily ... just not for million's. By law ... I believe the cap limit for cash payment's from store's/location's is about $600 still ... anything over ... you have to take to a "Texas Lotto" claim's center ... present an ID and they write you a check ... I won a couple thousand a couple time's ... I went to the location on Stemmons Freeway/ Empire Central to pick up my check, my small winning's I alway's just pick up my cash from the store ... I had a couple, that did not correctly read my ticket ... but I smiled and politely said ... "please check again" ... little did the SOB know that I already checked my bloody number's before I came in ... and was just there to get my money and split! But about 10 year's or so ago ... I was at the intersection of NW Hwy and Webb Chapel ... (one of a few cases I directly seen) and a homeless panhandler who was spare- changing happened to tell me he found a ticket on the ground ... and if I knew how to read them ... and asked me if it was a winner ... I checked it ... and told him it was $100 buck's ... he went crazy ... couldnt believe it ... it was about as dirty looking as the clothes he had on too. I told him to take it in the corner store there and they will pay him ... in cash ... the next part will require another paragraph to explain what this low- life clerk told him.
He start's to come out of the store ... looking disappointed ... I asked him what was up? he said according to the clerk ... it was only a $10 winner ... even tough he argued with the clerk that he thought it was $100 ... the clerk got angry with him, told him to take his $10 and get out or he will call the police for trying to cheat him and causing a disturbance ... the homeless guy didnt want trouble and bought it, and left the store with his $10 voluntarily. Obviously this flea bearded rag headed bastard clerk, looked at his homeless situation and his worn out dirty attire and shrugged him off! ... the homeless guy was also African American ... which really got me pissed, because this clerk (non-American) ... disrespect's American's daily in this store that look poor or especially those of colour. I told the homeless guy ... "hey man ... come in here with me" he asked why? and told me that the clerk said he will call the police ... I told him ... "he just made a mistake ... let me talk to him ... I'm sure I can explain the ticket to him" ... the guy agreed to come back in with me. I went in and told the clerk that I seen the ticket and read it correctly ... and to show me the ticket. He said he didnt want trouble and will call the police ... I told him to call the police .... because we werent leaving till I seen and verified the winning ticket or the police came. He soon gave in ... then said he was sorry ... he made a mistake.When leaving ... I went into the cooler cabinet's and asked the homeless guy what he wanted to drink ... he chose a Pepsi ... and I had a Coke ... the clerk told me the cost of the drinx ... I told the clerk ..."No ... these are payment for your mistake ... if you have a problem with it call the police ... I have plenty to tell them as well". He said nothing and let us walk. The homeless guy outside offered me half the money, I told him to forget it ... the cold Coke is fine, and one day I may need a favour from him.
I always hear that folk's find Jesus usually in Jail/Prison ... but during a score (hold-up)is not very common.Good thing he didnt have a partner ...cause the partner would be one miserable SOB the next morning waiting in "chow line" at County! The most annoying part of this...is all the goddamn whining and hug's and kisses!
Ms.Rita(comment's)of the "Around Town with Rita" blog, made a good point on some perhap's of the more fundamentalist type of religious folk's may look at this and talk about thing's like "prayer work's" ... think of the "power of Jesus" or a number of other religious connected thought's ... even "miracle's".It's a nice thought...and I realize the power of spiritualism ... but understand...when you are dealing with a scenario of the flesh and reality that you live in...you CANT bank on that ...if you could...we wouldnt have any of the problem's we have .... period.
In my opinion...this is a rare case ... and all the whining, hugging and kissing or what have you ...did do some good here...but in most cases it could worsen your situation as a victim.To make it simple(and YES...this IS simple)when you are a victim being taken down in a score in this manner, dont say much...do what your told, you can look at your assailant... but dont stare too long...this can worry the robber for "ID" purposes, more than any camera. You may argue though that making that "human contact"...showing the robber that you are human, emotion's, connection etc. would be good to do? Understand...this is not some well calculated art or fantasy piece of a serial killer...where you are simply an object to play a role in a scene ...this type of crime/act is more spontaneous and not focused much on you, the focus is to try to get the money/good's with the least amount of hassle and time...and to cut and run....period.Dont avoid eye contact ... just dont use prolonged direct eye contact...do what you are told in a timely manner ... make them comfortable that you are NOT going to try to talk them out or in of anything,they dont need to ask twice ...and your not a hero or challenge...and just another Joe/Jane trying to earn a living ... you have NO conflict with what they are or doing in other word's.And if you do have a gun and are armed...if they already are drawn down on you...dont pull it out...unless you dont mind getting shot ...bottom line...too much talk or action in a situation like this can complicate it.If the assailant is a dope fiend for instance...and edgy because of that and adrenaline... they can easily react too quick and shoot in panic without thinking.Again...make them feel comfortable...do their thing and get the hell out.
And for those who decide to fall to their knee's and repent in a job/score like this ...do yourself a goddamn favour for Pete's sake .. dont go take down a goddamn score like this if you dont think you will be able to see it through! Cause the court's and law/law enforcement dont give a rat's ass whether you get born again on the job or not...you took down a score...and their job is to take you down!This man claimed he needed this money by a certain time for his kid...they will be in the street etc. Dont be so goddamn stupid! You could have taken and pawned or sold that gun for more than $20...or a number of other thing's to hustle up a some quick cash...other than pulling a gun on someone...threatening their goddamn life ... and facing a goddamn death penalty in some cases over some chump change ....Geeeez! What the hell were you thinking? ...or should I ask, if you were thinking? Now your ass is sitting in County lockdown without your kid...and you have to wait probably month's if you dont make your multi hundred thousand dollar bail, or even if you do...because your familia had to put up their goddamn home's and car's or whatever as collateral to just get you a 10%/15% bond out, which their "cash" end is not refundable.... and wait for a court/jury to decide later...if you were sincere about your sudden change of heart.
I wanted to add this short clip to this journal to show some of the operation's that are huge in this nation that we hardly ever hear about. And to show example of where in some of my previous posting's I talked about the flip side of the coin on who is all scamming who.
Let me add....that Los Angeles is probably the biggest and hottest scam hub for this that I have personally seen in America...and dont think that any of this is "new". This game goes back so long...I remember the game well on the street's of NYC back in the 1970's ... and have also seen much of the game in LA ... even back that long. I also want to point out that this is only a fraction of what is going on,on Main St. America ... one case...one town and area only.
The reason California is such a hotspot for this... is also because California is one of the best state's in the nation for any social help/assistance.Many of the scammer's you see in this video are foreigner's ... but this has been ungoing for long by native born American's.New York tightened up year's ago...and made scamming more difficult on social service's...but everyone on the street coast to coast know's how LA and California...there is a fortune to be made... and Texas and Florida are two more 21st century hotspot's for scam activity...but California is even better because...they offered so many state assistance programme's combined with Federal.
The reason here I am not just focusing on "medicare" ... is because this is absolutely so widespread that it cover's every single social assistance institution across the nation.The junkies/dopefiend's in California(I want to be fair here and say...NOT ALL)are milking everything from food stamp assistance, to voucher programme's as well. I have also posted before how even insurance companies are being milked to the gill's in this country...OH YES ... when they are BMB (bitching,moaning and bellyaching) about the rising cost's of everything... understand ... that there is even a whole network coast to coast...especially big time in the City of Angels...that have phoney prescription racket's...and even storefront community clinic's set up where personel are milking insurance provider's, as well as state assistance programme's,federal,state and city and everything else imaginable. To be even more honest here...I dont think I can even name one of these institution's private or government that IS NOT being milked.
I realize that MOST American's DONT do this...what my point though is that there is a significant amount of folk's that do ... that it actually cost's billion's across the board annually in this country.This is actually so popular even on a global level...that even many American scam's are even being headquartered these day's out of Latin American countries...and as far away as counties in Africa...more and more because of the technologies and ability to tranfer fund's so quick now globally...plus the fact that when you scam using an international network and laundering...because of border's and law's...it make's it even hard for Interpol to track and keep up with all what's going on.But trust me...this is huge. Another reason why I have called America in this journal ..."The Land of Milking Money". And the reason I stated time and again that the people are not saint's and also part of this corrupt system ... but again...I will state that most people DO NOT participate in these thing's.I have also posted that because of some of these thing's...is why California is so deep in the hole and the red.
I wanted to post this video and some added opinion's of mine to this journal because I havent wrote enough about this ... and it is one of our very serious issue's. I really admire Ms.Velez- Mitchell (HLN/ CNN) here for really slamming it to the point of the reality of the current condition ... this is something that all teen's across our great nation should really be concerned with and discussing more.
CNN Blames Bush, Anti- Feminists, & Procreation For High School With 115 Pregnancies ... Thanx to GREG HENGLER
I certainly couldnt stress enough the importance of this.I sure as Hell dont like abortion any more than the pro-life American ... never did. There are many thing's that I dont like though ... such as our troop's dying daily in these corporate and fundamental radical muslim group's manufactured war's ... I could go on and on. But to just tell our young to use restrain ... or abstinence ... is obviously not working ... and never did throughout human history. Year's back ... it was essential to have as many children as you can ... for instance to help work the crop's on the farm ... or to have enough defender's in battle ... and to replenish those large number's that simply died from diseases or other life threatening complication's when we not only had no medical cure ... but no actual medicine's ... and you simply died.
In recent month's past even the Pope of the Vatican visited some African nation's trying to send a message to not use contraceptives ... yet some of these nation's have some of the highest birth rate's amongst poverty stricken folk's with corrupt government's who do much of nothing for the people ... and even large HIV/ AIDS related problem's and death's. A christian woman who is devoted to her belief's once told me that the Bible say's to be fruitful and multiply ... this is so ... however look at the time that was wrote in the Old Testament and folk's died alot younger than they do in these times. Put it this way ... we have been very fruitful and have multiplied beyond God's expectation's I told her ... and now is a time to use common sense ... because of the changing times ... and perhap's take a break.
It's very easy for older conditioned folk's like myself to talk to kid's about abstinence ... but we all know that,that is very difficult ... after all ... we were kid's ourselves ... remember? Even though how strict you may be with your moral standard's or belief's ... a true believer know's the flesh and how it react's seperate from one's spiritual self ... or moral values ... as Mitchell point's out in the video above ... adult's cant even control themselves! And Mitchell is so right on the money about the "drumbeat" of society ... on "pro-create" pop culture talk ... and this campaign from all those (3 entities of mega religion's, corporation's, and government's) to do so, because of this "consume, consume" mentality that they foster on us. I have posted about this so many time's about getting an overabundance of cheap labour and people to consume more than they need and to be in a lifetime of debt to these institution's.
I recall a very troubled experience in detail a few year's back (I briefly touched on in some earliest posting's) ... I was at Parkland Memorial Hospital one night (Parkland is a Dallas County hospital ... that deliver's more babies than any hospital in the nation annually, the majority of those to non english speaking immigrant's and people with low income) to deliver something to a nurse there who is a family friend. She worked graveyard shift in maternity ward. While I visited the newborn's department just to look ... my eye's focused upon a baby in such horrible condition, it looked like legalized torture to me, probably one of the most awful sight's I ever seen. A baby with tubes coming and going from it ... sore's, undernourished, etc. I asked the nurse what was wrong with the baby? She said it was born to a mother who is a combo cocaine/ heroin addict and the father is unknown. Last I checked then ... it cost the County about a half a million to keep that baby alive and suffering in it's horrible state of existence ... yet ... the State of Texas would not pay (about $500 or so I gathered) for the girl to have an abortion which she wanted from what I heard. I then wondered to myself ... which is truely inhumane or an atrocity? Personally speaking ... I could never put a child through that, no matter what the pop culture morality may say. I simply dont have that amount of cruelty and lack of regard inside me I reckon. They say God is one of mercy ... I must say that I too am. The medical problem's I found out from the nurse that this child was going to have were awful ... downright horrible by my standard's ... and hopefully they would be able to find adoptive parent's ... if not ... I reckon the child goes into that life surrounded by poverty,crime,and drug abuse (if the child does live) ... since the child was born addicted ... it will never even be able to use prescribed opiate's or clinical cocaine ... because it may trigger automatic addiction.
Every era throughout our civilized history has it's own challenges ... no different with our 21st century challenges especially in our highly overpopulated areas. But also we have adjusted our morality thoughout the centuries to work for the best interest of the challenges of it's times .I can list off a number of thing's ... that were at a time considered morally unacceptable ... that your most devout religious people do today as common as eating breakfast cereal ... and even your churches condone to it. Why? ... Because even the church know's that it has a responsibility to try to preserve our well being, and Self Destruction is not Life ... it is anti- life.
Because of these experiences I mentioned above ... I strongly support birth control/ contraceptives ... with a mindset to embrace and love life ... not put it in misery and harm's way.
