Charity? No way jose.

Everyone has been getting money from me, and  now I'm way past my budget until the next check comes in at the end of the month.

I chased away a beggar who came at 7am and had her daughter keep calling my name. I hate that: It is like being called out like a trained dog to obey them. I would feel guilty but I gave this beggar quite a bit last Thursday (500 pesos, for milk for her baby), and maybe if her husband wasn't busy drinking and gambling she could feed the kids. Alas, I'm sure the money goes to him, not to the kids.

ditto for a certain person who will remain nameless, who has borrowed about a month's worth of my pension (100 000 pesos so far this month) and of course the banks are closed and only my money 6000 pesos in the ATM, which is for food and expenses, remains. So I told him no. And we are supposed to look the other way when he goes out all night and claims he is "working". So instead of going out to a restaurant for father's day he cooked gourmet food here. no problem, except two of the "mac and chesse" that he bought for me and ruby come from a restaurant that is more expensive than Luz, and just because he was gone all day do I think he ate their earlier with his paramour, and that is why he wanted more money?

Then Joy came to ask for 2000 pesos for "medicine". Her husband was "out" and he doesn't give her money to spend, in order to control her.

and then there is the maid (1000 over the last week for "food" and an electric fan) and the cook (4000 over the last week, for school fees and hospital bills for a relative) asking for extra money. I usually try to give it to them, but this week I will have to say no. Then there was 300 to beggars that the cook said needed medicine.

Why am I angry? Because I suspect a lot of money is being used for fun, not essentials. And I have given away the budget so I can't buy myself snacks or trivia that I want to buy (like a thumb drive to replace the two that Ruby borrowed and hasn't returned).

My pension is small, plus social security, and Peso exchange rate is 44. So go figure. In other words, in the last two weeks I've spent over a month of my income.

And today, we go to the movies, and I'm in such a rotten mood i might say no. On the other hand, the film is Jurassic part redux, with lots of dinosaurs eating people, so the way I feel I might enjoy it...

update on the culture of death

Famed Hospice physician Ira Byock explains why the rush to legalize assisted suicide is a mistake.

Follow the money: many hospices are now owned by profit oriented companies,

The less polite refer to entrenched interests in the status quo and financial pipelines of the medical-industrial complex. Without disputing my premise, one senior blue state senator recently told me I was naïve to think anything substantial would change.

He sounded depressed, but I couldn’t let him off the hook. I pointed out that if the physician-assisted suicide bill he supports becomes law, his mother’s internist will still not have been adequately trained or have the skills needed to treat her pain or breathlessness. He will be no better at listening to her concerns or counseling her through the difficult, but normal, process of leaving this life. He will, however, be able to write her a lethal prescription.

What about this is good government?

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/doctor-assisted-suicide-democrats-118718.html#ixzz3cndaEvte

He seems optimistic about the future when Obamacare will take out the profit incentive of killing rather than helping patients to live pain free, but I wonder.

Since the early 1990's, Callahan and others who write in bioethics have wanted regulations to limit care that won't help the patient, and they consider that helping their "quality of life", i.e. that if you are retarded, brain damaged, or otherwise non productive, and the treatment will only prolong your life and not improve your "quality of life" they will not pay for it...

Disability groups know this. LINK

3)  There is a risk that definitions of value that have previously been posited by self-appointed “bioethicists” will be foisted upon the stakeholders. Concepts such as “quality adjusted life years” and “disability adjusted life years” inherently devalue people with disabilities and chronic conditions and should not be used as a basis for the work of the initiative.

and Obama's anti religious regulations will make those associated with religion close when they will insist that these organizations give "all options" to their patients.

Don't believe me? Well, there are states where law says that all docs have to give abortion causing "morning after" pill to all "rape" patients.

The problem? When given within a few hours, it is contraceptive, but given days later, it causes abortion...and many "rape" patients come in days later, and are "date rape" type situations. and other patients lie about it to get the pill.

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related item:

Mrs Gay Caswell writes how the PCtypes have bullied her and her school for unorthodox opinions.

cynical religion posts

the facebook "two seconds of hate" is a photo of a man, presumably a Republican that the hate people hate, saying only scientists should judge about global warming, and then a photo of the pope saying he hates global warming, and a caption saying he has a master's degree in chemistry.

this is a non sequitor since having an advanced degree in chemistry does not make one an expert in climate science.

What scientific training is supposed to do is make one willing to question things, and to rely on hard data that can be reproduced by experimentation. Climate science has a lot of theories, but is so politicized as to be a religion, and a religion used to justify a one world order run by experts.

There is a big difference in protecting the environment and stopping sustainable development that gives poor people jobs. Fifty foot slag heaps in mining areas are bad, but stopping mining altogether leads to deaths and pollution from poor people doing the mining using primitive methods, because they will risk their lives to support their families. The answer is to regulate the mines, and stop the corruption that lets the mine owners get away with pollution if they pay a bribe.

Related item: NEJournal has a photo of our mayor being laid to rest with the Knights of Columbus escorting the body.

HELLO. He ordered the hit that killed five people to win an election (killing our nephew, a bystander) and more recently, a few days after his daughter became mayor, there was an attempted hit on one of the family members of that family. To make things worse, it killed his body guard and three bystanders.

After the first murder happened, the bishop has all those running for office sign a pledge against violence, Apparently he didn't specify that this anti murder pledge should continue after the election was finished. And now, there are road blocks checking for weapons, since election year is coming again.

Chano and wife attended the SOB's wake. The relatives are furious against him for this but it should keep us safe...maybe.

third item: Father Z has a link to an article about Obama giving a speech to the Catholic health care organization, which supported Obamacare even though he refused to add the part about abortion.

and Father Z has a photo of their leader holding up one of the souvenier pens.
One is reminded of this:

Sir Thomas More: Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?

rewrite:

Why Richard Sister, it profits a man woman nothing to give his her soul for the whole world....but for Wales a fifty cent ballpoint pen?

finally, the knives are out against Cardinal Pell. Actually, like Ratzinger, he tried to clean up the abuse cases, but also clean up other things, so they will use abuse coverups against him.

In Ratzinger's case, it was daring to be Catholic. In Pell's case, it is because he is cleaning up the Vatican Bank where a lot of these guys are getting rich on scams and money laundering.

Don't expect this to be mentioned in the press reports however.

finally: The next "contraceptive" is to give a monthly abortion pill. UK Mail article includes spin. Be prepared for Obama to insist this be paid for with your money.

another point of view

If I have been a bit homophobic, it is because I see how the modern "tolerance" cliches are destroying my family, justifying rape of our staff, and wasting my late husband's hard earned savings on his latest squeeze.

this was not especially how I felt with my gay patients, who I saw as living with an inborn weakness trying to cope, and whom I usually encouraged to find a stable relationship, and even referred them for family counseling, psychiatric help, or drug rehab as needed for their struggles.

However, the Catholic answer by the Pope,  "Who am I to judge" insists that being gay is a cross to be born/handicap to be lived with, not an inborn sin per se. Alas, the MSM propaganda machine uses it to bash those who try to say that the emperor has no clothes, i.e. that men and women are different, and that marriage is about children, adults and family , not about one's personal fulfillment (and the hell about the rest of them).



The Catholic point of view can be found here:


The Third Way from Blackstone Films on Vimeo.

CS Lewis "life and ministry"

Checking around on CS Lewis, I ran into this video:

C.S. Lewis, Romantic Rationalist: How His Paths to Christ Shaped His Life and Ministry

what bothered me about this: 

it assumes that ONLY Christ shaped his life, and that his MINISTRY was what was important.

Lewis was someone who went off into enthusiasms (Mrs. Moore anyone?) and started giving talks on Christianity when he was a young Christian (which is one reason Tolkien was a bit annoyed at this activity: he saw Lewis as an amateur doing the work of the professionals...that professionals weren't doing it is another problem. Maybe God chose an unqualified person to wake up the church, as He tends to do...)

Yet my main problem with the article is the implication that "ministry" is the way to serve God. I run into this in a lot of churchy sites: The idea that only if you do churchy things you are a real Christian?

What about the rest of us? The "Little way" of St Therese? The idea that we get to heaven by doing the duties of our daily life? When Mother Teresa was asked by a taxi driver how he could best serve God, she answered: Smile at your wife....what you do for the least of my brethren might mean giving the kids an after school snack, or holding one's temper.

Can't an ordinary person doing ordinary things serve God? How about a guy doing his work, taking care of his wife and children, caring for chickens, helping care for a child stuck in bed with rheumatic fever, and telling his kids stories to keep them entertained? Stories about a stodgie man named Bilbo...