From the Times:
The brothers, Philip and Joel, earned close to $1 million a year each as the two top executives running a Medicaid-financed nonprofit organization serving the developmentally disabled.
New York spends $10 billion a year caring for the disabled, more than half of which goes to private providers, with little oversight on their spending.
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Hmmm…”Nixon knew when you testified before a grand jury you exposed yourself to perjury, so I’m betting he told the truth,” Mr Kutler said.
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Frank Borzellieri, 48, was quietly promoted to principal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School two years ago – despite a history of controversial writings and campaigns, including a push to ban a biography on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Check out this article:
White supremacist principal worries parents
Terrific essay by Doug Bandow nails Joe Lieberman and John McCain on their respective bogging:
DOUG BANDOW: John McCain: Always Confused, Ever for War
Sen. John McCain has exhibited personal courage, but his geopolitical judgment is uniformly awful. Over the last 30 years there has been no war or potential war that he has opposed.
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1. Don’t fight the water; move with it.
2. Use your arms less. Use your core more.
3. Hit waves head-on, straight through their crest. Otherwise, your boat might tip.
4. Change your vocabulary: “I made a wet exit from my boat” feels very different from “My boat tipped.”
5. Paddle at a quicker cadence, but with less force.
6. Look up: sandstone cliffs. Black rocks the oldest on Earth. Seagulls.
7. But don’t look up when a seagull is directly overhead.
8. Look down: stripes of colored rock beneath the water. Weeds. Broken pilings from old docks.
9. Being upside down underwater isn’t all that bad.
10. Rescuing another kayaker from the water isn’t all that hard. Talk him through it. Look him in the eyes. Don’t panic.
11. Every moment, something can be learned. Every moment, something can be taught.
12. Watch the weather. Watch the water. Shifting winds, changing current. Thundering. Rip tide. Be ready to react.
13. Don’t say a water monster’s name while you’re still on the water. That invites the monster to try to tip your boat/help you practice a water exit.
14. Kayak instructors aren’t afraid to get wet and sandy, to rinse their wetsuits in the lake. To tip their boats while demonstrating how not to tip your boat.
15. Wear a lifejacket. Make sure it’s snug around your waist, chest.
16. Wetsuits do not flatter anyone’s figure. They’re impossible to put on, and even more impossible to take off when wet. But when you practice a wet exit in Lake Superior, you’ll be glad you’re wearing one.
Poet and essayist Andrea Scarpino is a regular contributor to POTB. You can visit her at: http://www.andreascarpino.com
I remember being bullied rather routinely all through my public school years. See the following study:
http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2011/07/29/study-bullying/13634/
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Check out this article:
TSA agent: I have one arm and I do job fine!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2011/07/30/2011-07-30_i_have_one_arm__i_do_job_fine.html
Robert Bly once wrote a poem entitled “Those Being Eaten By America” in which he concluded: “the world will soon break up into small colonies of the saved.” In Bly’s vision salvation came by turning one’s back on predatory capitalism. In the poem, big industry was devouring its workers–it literally ate them alive.
Bly’s poem was written in the dark days of the Viet Nam War and it’s reactionary impulses felt just fine to me when I was 18. Now, contemplating the extremism of the “Tea Party” I see Bly captured an omnipresent aspect of our nation’s psyche–which is to say, when things get hard there’s always a faction that wants to secede. This is old news but what the TP is proving is that Democracy stands in the way of a preferred and sentimental vision of frontier anarchy. Here is a succinct list of what the Tea Party folks believe:
With the nation’s attention diverted by the drama over the debt ceiling, Republicans in the House of Representatives are loading up an appropriations bill with 39 ways — and counting — to significantly curtail environmental regulation.
Republicans have loaded a House appropriations bill with provisions to severely curtail environmental oversight.
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The clock is ticking. Last minute talks in Congress and the Administration to develop a deficit reduction strategy have turned out two major proposals:the Reid plan and the Boehner plan. Both plans could result in devastating cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security after six months of passing. With the fate of our country hanging in the balance, should the burden of this financial crisis fall on the backs of struggling seniors and people with disabilities? Time is running out for lawmakers to reach a decision on where our country will go from here, and who will foot the bill. With the pressure building, we must make sure that Medicaid is not left behind. Call 866-324-0787 today to tell lawmakers that you oppose Boehner and Reid's proposed cuts to vital services for people with disabilities. On this 21stanniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we must fight to protect the ADA's promise of equal opportunity and equal access. Don't sit on the sidelines. This fight needs you.
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