4.30.2015
Gallery: Seattle teens make solar powered tiny homes for area homeless
***** A damning new report claims that the American Psychological Association collaborated directly with the Bush administration to bolster its ethical and legal justifications for America's torture program.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/first-do-harm
SPDF Day 52-7: Released from ER and Hospital this afternoon.... more
Admitted to ER at Howard University (I survived) 7am after sitting on the toilet floor since midnight pouring sweat, shaking in stomach pain. Finally called the ambulance.
Diagnosis, twisted, obstructed, small intestine. The only comment on me going to the ER was, 'WHY DID YOU WAIT FOR 6 HOURS TO CALL US???? DON'T DO THAT AGAIN.' I won't.
Cause? The senior surgeon who admitted me and attended me each day, surrounded by his gaggle of interns, at mid day today, when I asked, 'What did I do to bring this on?,' thinking it was what I ate, how I ate, the 52 day fast... he said, 'No, it was nothing you did, and you have no restrictions now. It is all the cancer surgery in your abdomen. It unavoidably causes scarring, and this often, frequently, usually(?) sets up the condition for such small intestine obstructions as I had.
My SAINT of a primary care doc, devoted to we homeless, saw me when I returned from the hospital, and has called my cancer team to find out if they want the surgeon that did the liver section to see what is going on? And, she wants me to get the colonoscopy they've been trying to get me to schedule, which I will.
For now, tho I've been given no restrictions, I'm trying to avoid eating any C.R.A.P. (Carbonated, Refined Shugars, Artificial sweeteners or colorings, Processed) (the Farmers Market is open with subsidies for we economically poor), chew vvveeerrrryyyy carefully, watch portion size, hydrate.
I'm taking some gut-beast-feeding farmers market sauerkraut each day, and Greek Yogurt for the gut as well (sorry sister cows) :-( .
Tho the extreme pain has subsided, the nature of the pain and feeling of vulnerability has not. Feels pretty wounded, and vulnerable. I'll see what happens. They emphasized I need to be ready at short notice to back to the hospital.
I needed to be on Captal $$$ Hill with the Free Palestine Vigil this week... that didn't happen. Whether I can get to the White House Sat and Sun... I pray so... will have to see what my body says. Pretty messed up. Of course, I'll make every second count for Palestine, on line, that I can, regardless.
SEE IT: Los Angeles man builds tiny house for homeless woman, plans more of them
Jon Stewart and his wife bought a farm, plan to create an animal sanctuary
Israelis Are Surprisingly United About Which US President Has Helped Their Nation the Least
The Wire's David Simon has a solution to Baltimore's problems: 'End the f***ing drug war'
SPDF Day 52-7: National park zoning used as pretext for ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem
For the American right, Israel embodies the values that Obama’s U.S. no longer does By Peter Beinart
4.29.2015
SPDF Day 52-6: Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think our extinction is assured, unless we have a more enlightened approach to our relationship with Earth.
Colombian Journalist Wins Courage Award After Kidnapping, Torture and Rape While Covering Arms Trade
***** A high school English teacher quit her job to run a food truck. But this isn't an ordinary one.
Obama’s role model to journalists — Dorothy Thompson — turned against Zionism and was silenced
SPDF Day 52-6: still in the hospital. Will keep me until at least tomorrow morning....
SPDF Day 52-6: still in the hospital. Will keep me until at least tomorrow morning. Restarting me on a liquid and soft diet beginning this afternoon. they are fairly certain there was a obstruction, kink, in my small intestine. They are hoping that it is resolving itself and that surgery will not be required.
SPDF Day 52-6: Israel Evacuates Surrogate Babies From Nepal but Leaves the Mothers Behind
Albert Einstein: The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty. The ordinary objects of human endeavour—property, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.
The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty. The ordinary objects of human endeavour—property, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.
America is not a Christian nation: The dark capitalist roots of our country’s most destructive myth Princeton professor Kevin Kruse on Christian libertarianism and what we get wrong about America's religious revival
***** SPDF Day 52-6: must watch. Video: Palestinian resistance in Gaza is “fighting for all of us,” says Dr. Mads Gilbert
***** SPDF Day52-6: David Simon: we've descended into what can only be described as greed. This is just.....
David Simon: we've descended into what can only be described as greed. This is just greed. This is an inability to see that we're all connected, that the idea of two Americas is implausible, or two Australias, or two Spains or two Frances.......
You're seeing the underclass hunted through an alleged war on dangerous drugs that is in fact merely a war on the poor and has turned us into the most incarcerative state in the history of mankind
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/david-simon-my-country-horror-show
4.28.2015
Chris Hedges. Revolution.Rise of the New Black Radicals
SPPDF Day 52-5: they have admitted me to the hospital for further tests. Despite having not eaten since this time yesterday my pain has risen back to about a 6 or a 7. They are not sure what is going on.
SPPDF Day 52-5: they have admitted me to the hospital for further tests. Despite having not eaten since this time yesterday my pain has risen back to about a 6 or a 7. They are not sure what is going on.
As long as poor white people keep blaming poor black people for all of society's problems, Republicans will keep winning...
SPDF Day 52-5: They have given me something for the pain. they are keeping me comfortable. They have....
SPDF Day 52-5: They have given me something for the pain. they are keeping me comfortable. They have taken a full set of abdominal x-rays to see if they can spot a blockage and/or adhesion. the doctor has not yet brought in the results. I am able to get some work done on my tablet. But having set up all night in the bathroom shaking with pain, drenched in sweat, I am also requiring quite a bit of sleep. Unfortunately. I needed to be on Capitol Hill with the posters for Congress today. Hopefully tomorrow. I must better understand how to consume the calories I need without creating a crisis in my carved up abdomen.