Best tweet about Cheney's Heart Transplant:

Steve Beste (@stevebeste)
3/24/12 7:08 PM
There is one pissed organ donor in Heaven.

Ha!

PROTOTYPES.ORG- check out this group that helps women deal with problems WHILE keeping their kids

PROTOTYPES is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1986 by Dr. Vivian Brown and Maryann Fraser, LCSW, MBA. From the very beginning, our founders envisioned a unique social service organization dedicated to meeting emerging community needs by developing and improving treatment methods and community reach. Their goal was to ensure that women could get services that were customized to meet their needs and that took into consideration their role as mothers.

Prior to PROTOTYPES opening its doors, women facing these issues could only get necessary services if they turned their children over to the foster care system or left them with family. Our founders recognized that women were usually dealing with more than one issue concurrently, yet there was not a single treatment program that was equipped to deal with them all in one place. Women who had both substance abuse and mental health issues were often told that their issues had to be addressed in separate programs.

In response to these serious gaps in treatment, PROTOTYPES opened its doors in 1986 with a clear mission to change the way communities sought treatment. PROTOTYPES designed and developed innovative models to provide integrated and comprehensive programs that allowed women and their children to stay together while receiving rehabilitative services all in one nurturing environment.

Today, PROTOTYPES has locations throughout Southern California and serves more than 15,000 women, children and men each year. PROTOTYPES remains focused on rebuilding the lives of women, children and communities impacted by substance abuse, mental illness and domestic violence. With a proven model for successful social services, PROTOTYPES has evolved into one of the nation’s leading social service organizations and a prototype for emerging nonprofit agencies.
Much more: http://protypes.org

States are threatening to defund them. That is so short-sighted. They provide ways to help women and their kids which can save the family. They will also try different approaches to see what works.

This is one of the better attempts at dealing with many chronic problems that I have read about. These problems don't usually occur separately so it makes sense to take a holistic approach.

Some in Tea Party cite ‘buyer’s remorse’ with SC Gov. Haley

Talbert Black, state coordinator of the S.C. Campaign for Liberty, worked hard to get his Lexington County state representative, Nikki Haley, elected governor in 2010, blasting out emails and making phone calls to galvanize Tea Party-minded voters.

“She was going to fight the establishment, shrink the size of government and fight the good ol’ boy,” Black said Friday of Haley. “Instead, she got elected and became part of the system.” Black is part of a faction of the state’s Tea Party movement that says Haley, who they helped elect, has broken faith with them. Many now hope she will be a one-term governor.
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Black is not alone. Harry Kibler says he has a case of “buyer’s remorse” when it comes to Haley.
Kibler is founder of five RINO Hunt chapters around the state, a grassroots organization that says it supports the Republican platform. During Haley’s gubernatorial campaign, Kibler supported her, speaking at events on her behalf.

“I admired her commitment to transparency. Standing firm for true, conservative values. Smaller government, reduced taxes, reduced spending,” Kibler said. “But within weeks of being sworn in, literally, she started caving in on her convictions.”
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Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2012/03/25/2206692/some-in-tea-party-cite-buyers.html#storylink=

People are lining up from all sides to primary her.

Good Lawd! Sandusky's wife is just as bad and both she and Jerry are scarey!

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Matt Sandusky is not part of the legal case against the former Penn State football coach and his adoptive father, Jerry Sandusky. But in many ways, Matt’s story has become intertwined in the saga.
It’s a complicated story.

Matt lived with the Sanduskys through many of the years that abuse is alleged to have happened under the roof of their modest two-story home.
Within several hundred pages of evidence collected by investigators during a grand jury probe of

Jerry Sandusky are several police reports about the 68-year-old’s youngest adopted son.
Well before Sandusky was accused of being a child molester, Matt’s biological mother was the lone voice of concern when Sandusky took her son into foster care in 1996. Notes to her attorney show she challenged the court, made accusations of stalkinglike behavior against Sandusky and suspected abuse.
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Family and friends have said the relationship between Matt and Jerry Sandusky was controlling and rocky.
Matt’s biological brother, Ron Heichel, remembers being a teenager in the 1990s and trying to reach Matt at the Sandusky home.
Sandusky’s wife, Dottie, answered the phone.
“And she said, ‘He’s not your brother anymore.’ This was before he was even adopted,” he said.
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/jerry_sandusky_adopted_son_had.html

This story is horrible. Read it all.
His wife needs to be there right beside him in the jail! Matt was his brother!
Evil, pure evil!

A 1 Million Dollar Reward For Zimmerman?

The New Black Panthers already have announced a $10,000 reward. That's bad enough, but they claim they will get one million to put up as an incentive.

Unfortunately, they will take the glare from the injustice done to Trayvon And shift it to them and the following uproar. I want Zimmerman to be punished too, but this is only going to bring out the very worst of people from both sides. Even many who support Trayvon will have nothing to do with this.

This will not end well.

Arch-Diocese Of New York Agrees To Meet To Discuss The St. James Church Cat Situation

First and foremost, since our last update to you, we can report that the valiant caretakers are getting some food to the cats, but of course this is not how a colony should be cared for, as you all know. We are not putting the cats’ health in jeopardy, and we would not use them as bargaining chips. That said, our primary goal is to keep them where they are and restore daily care as quickly as possible.

Secondly, before all of your calls and e-mails were received, the Archdiocese of NYC had insisted that the lockout of the cat caretakers at St. James Church was just a one-parish issue that they would not get involved in. Now, more than 1,000 calls and e-mails later, they have reconsidered. The Archdiocese of NYC has agreed to meet with the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals on Tuesday, March 27, to discuss the situation. Obviously, this is much more than a one-parish issue.

Thank you for your articulate and ardent letters and calls urging the church to allow the cats to remain where they are and underscoring the benefits of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR). While the benefits of not removing a group of neutered, vaccinated cats living peacefully and being well cared for is obvious to many of us, many people still don’t understand that removal just doesn’t work.

This small colony of cats has received international attention, and what is decided here will set a precedent for others wishing to evict TNR’ed feral cat colonies from other places. The church has an opportunity to make a wonderful statement on behalf of humane care for feral cats if they make the correct and progressive choice to not remove the cats. We all know that removal is both ineffective and inhumane.
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Keep up the pressure:
Call Joseph Zwilling, Communications Director for the Archdiocese of New York, at (212) 371-1011 x2997.
E-mail the Archdiocese of New York at [email protected]. Father Gonsalves, the Vatican, and the NYC Feral Cat Initiative will be copied on your e-mail.
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The rest of the story and info about the cats to use:
http://www.animalalliancenyc.org/wordpress/2012/03/archdiocese-of-new-york-agrees-to-meet-to-discuss-the-st-james-church-cat-situation/

Okay. They have now shown no compassion for kids and animals. Are the elderly and/or disabled next? They seem to have it in for the powerless unless they are unborn.

Rethinking His Religion: A Southern Catholic's Awakening (Great read)

This man attended Catholic services every Sunday in a jacket and tie, feeling that church deserved such respect. I kept a certain distance from him. I’d arrived at college determined to be honest about my sexual orientation and steer clear of people who might make that uncomfortable or worse. I figured him for one of them.

About two years ago, out of nowhere, he found me. His life, he wanted me to know, had taken interesting turns. He’d gone into medicine, just as he’d always planned. He’d married and had kids. But he’d also strayed from his onetime script. As a doctor, he has spent a part of his time providing abortions.
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I’m struck more than anything else by how much searching and asking and reflecting he’s done, this man I’d so quickly discounted, who pledged a fraternity when he was still on my radar and then, when he wasn’t, quit in protest over how it had blackballed a Korean pledge candidate and a gay one.

Because we never really talked after freshman year, I didn’t know that, nor did I know that after graduation he ventured to a desperately poor part of Africa to teach for a year. College, he recently told me, had not only given him a glimpse of how large the world was but also shamed him about how little of it he knew.
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He grew up in the South, in a setting so homogenous and a family so untroubled that, he said, he had no cause to question his parents’ religious convictions, which became his. He said that college gave him cause, starting with me. Sometime during freshman year, he figured out that I was gay, and yet I didn’t conform to his prior belief that homosexuals were “deserving of pity for their mental illness.” I seemed to him sane and sound.
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(great story at the end)
more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/opinion/sunday/bruni-a-catholic-classmate-rethinks-his-religion.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

There is hope.

Pit Bull Searches for Lost Cat

Cheney got his heart from

Breitbart.

Pol Pot's wasn't available and Liz wouldn't give hers up.
They are the only ones that won't be rejected.
It's all a cover anyway to make him seem human. He has never had a heart.

Elaynes Boosler weighs in on the new topic: The Fashion Of Crime

Elayne Boosler (@ElayneBoosler)
3/23/12 3:33 PM
I've never been hurt by anyone wearing a hoodie, but I've been destroyed by white men in suits with briefcases, & so has America.


Suits, especially black ones, make me nervous.