http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120612056&sc=fb&cc=fp
Check out story corps- and sit down the day after Thanksgiving and record someone’s story.
A filibuster is a way to highjack a debate- the word actually derives from filibustero, a Spanish word meaning pirate. It can be stopped by “cloture” a 3/5 majority vote to end the filibuster- otherwise it can go on a long time.
It has been famously used against bills for fair employment practices, to prevent discrimination in the work place and against civil rights legislation.
Southern Senator Strom Thurmond (D/R-SC) set a record in 1957 by filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes,[15] although the bill ultimately passed.
Let’s hope our legislators refrain from using the filibuster as a weapon to prevent debate about the health care bill.
13 tips for self defense on Thanksgiving.
Sharpen your knives for the holidays.
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/holidays-object-relations/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/nyregion/18albany.html
DWI with child on board may become a felony in New York State, in response to recent horrific events, such as the Diane Schuler case, which resulted in eight deaths.
The law will be named for an 11-year-old girl, Leandra Rosado, who was killed after the mother of one of her friends, who has since been charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated, flipped her car on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan.
Toxicology reports show Diane Schuler was drunk and high when she crashed her car and killed herself and seven other people on July 26.
We still puzzle over how this happened, as though mothers, women who are MOTHERS, are immune to addiction, and so their families are safe from parental abuse.
No so. Parents, mothers and fathers, sometimes abuse their children. Addicts are abusers. Period.
If you want to protect your kids, get with the program- AA or NA or therapy or residential treatment- and quit the addiction.
That’s all there is.
The horrible accident on the Taconic, the worst accident in 75 years, is seared in the memories of our hearts.
New York Magazine offered a clear and unbiased timeline of what happened when– but we are still stuck with a woman who was drunk and high and drove the wrong way on the highway in a car filled with kids, crashed, killed all but one of the children, killed herself, and killed the occupants of the car she drove into.
Maybe we are looking for explanations to assuage our grief, but there are none besides the ugly facts.
See New York Magazine’s balanced analysis of the Diane Schuler story.
http://nymag.com/news/features/62043/index3.html
