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DUANE HACK from page 20
care Advocacy and Leadership Organization-A
non-profit Christian voice for the medically
vulnerable) receives from grieving family
members. Their loved one was alert and not
complaining of pain. After admission to
hospice, increasingly frequent and larger doses
of pain medications, anti-anxiety dmgs, and
sedatives were administered to the point where
he or she was sleeping all the time and could
SHAKITA SMITH from page 23
about some of the tilings they are watching or
have watched on social media, and how they
feel about it. Ask them if they are being a
victim of cyber bullying or having
conversations with someone who could be a
predator.
And youth, don’t wait for your parents to ask
you about these things. Please go to your
parents or an adult you tmst if you are being a
victim of cyber bullying, experiencing
depression, or having any experiences after or
while being online that you are uneasy about.
Parents, you are encouraged to set limits and
well defined boundaries around your children’s
social media usage. For instance, limit the
amount of time your children can use
electronic devices and access social media. It is
not eat or drink. Some reported that patients
were denied usual medications to control blood
pressure, diabetes, heart disease, infections, etc.
95% Were Enrolled in Hospice: Sometimes,
Hospice is promoted as an antidote to Assisted
Suicide. There is merit in the argument that we
should ensure patients don’t commit suicide
because they are not receiving adequate
treatment to manage pain and other symptoms.
However, Oregon’s experience suggests that
Hospice Care is not an antidote to Assisted
encouraged to remove devices from your
child’s bedroom at night and monitor their
behavior often, such as how does your child act
when electronic devices / social media are not
allowed, does your child have any changes in
their self image, and are they lying to get on
their electronic devices / access social media?
Youth, won’t you please do what our
Heavenly Father likes? Keep being the
remarkable, intelligent young man or young
lady that you are! I KNOW you can make
good, positive choices! I KNOW that you can
model for others the behavior that our
Heavenly Father wants to see and favors.
Know that your reward will be great.
(Galatians 6:9)
Besides, the most likes always goes to those
actions which warms our hearts!
BILL BOURIS from page 20
unknown. Would I type or say a number that
I’d used in the past. (Really?!!, Was this was
the first time I was using my cell phone in
almost 30 years of having that number? Oh
well...) So, I typed in my land-line number.
And, when it did not recognize what I’d typed,
my chances ran out, and I was informed that it
was terminating the call. Also, I was told that it
would not call my physician’s office for a pre
scription renewal.
After hanging up, I immediately called the
pharmacy and spoke with a clerk. They asked
for the prescription number, I gave it, and the
clerk tells me that the renewal request had been
sent to the physician’s by the “system” auto
matically! But, she added, since this was Friday
afternoon, I should wait until Tuesday, before
following up. Come Tuesday: NoRx.
Wednesday: I call and speak with a clerk and
say that I’ve run out of medication, and
reminded her that in the past, when this was the
case, the pharmacy would issue some “loaners”
to me (which were later deducted from the new
prescription) and could I have some loaners
now? No, she says, I’d need to speak with my
doctor before they could do that. So, I call the
doctor, and the doctor’s receptionist says she’ll
tell the nurse, and the nurse will call me back.
When the doctor’s nurse called back, she
said, “that we no longer give out free samples
of prescription medicines.” WHAT?!!!I
laughed. Then I thanked her and said goodbye.
After a cup of coffee I called the pharmacy,
to tell them about my conversation with the
nurse. But, instead, I got, “Oh, Mr. Bouris! The
doctor’s office just called with your
prescription renewal. It will be ready in 15
minutes.”
Here’s a moral that I think you can draw
from all this: Don’t blame humans for the
shortcomings of the system they are working
in. Because those people, who are available for
the blaming, are not the responsible ones! The
responsible ones are usually light-years away,
and, maybe that’s only a tip of an iceberg.
D.A. KING from page 19
- Tracks the number of arrests, convictions,
deportations and categorizes the crimes
committed by criminal aliens.
- Destroy silos and provides new law
enforcement with sophisticated tools to track
organized crime, gang, cartel connections...
- Creates valuable data for lawmakers to
develop common sense legislation that curbs
illegal immigration in Georgia.
- Includes opportunities for partnership with
President Tmmp and local universities.”
Readers paying attention may have noticed
that not only has Kemp ignored every part of
the above promises, but that to this writer’s
attentive knowledge, he has not mentioned
illegal immigration in Georgia since 2018.
On the topic of bizarre nonsense, please also
consider the lengths to which at least one Kemp
acolyte has gone to concoct an argument for
defending the governor, now in his second
term.
Radio show host explains Kemp’s refusal to
honor his 2018 pledge on ‘criminal illegals’
Republican stalwart and influential
Gainesville radio show host Martha Zoller
(WDUN- 9-11 AM weekdays and online) says
illegal immigration has increased so much that
Brian Kemp had to abandon his campaign
promises on “criminal illegals” and ending
sanctuary cities in Georgia. She has promoted
this idea more than once on the air and says
discussing Kemp’s betrayal is “wasting time.”
Zoller, a Kemp appointee to the state school
board, has repeatedly expressed her irritation
on-air with this writer for failing to forget Gov
Brian Kemp’s many detailed promises on
addressing “criminal illegals.” A former Kemp
staffer, she says “he had to change his tactics”
(because there are so many illegals). She has
promoted this idea more than once on the air
and says discussing Kemp’s betrayal is
“wasting time.”
For those who need a recap, Talker’s
Magazine 2023 Woman of The Year Martha
Zoller is advising her trusting audience that
Biden’s open borders have apparently made
ending illegal sanctuary policies in Georgia,
creating a public database of “criminal illegals”
and sending legislation (“Brian Kemp’s Track
and Deport Plan”) to the General Assembly an
outdated, non-priority concept.
Sanctuary city policies are already illegal
under at least two state laws. Georgia’s
governor is not enforcing them.
So, closing questions: Is it more irresponsible
that moderate Republican Martha Zoller offers
up wildly absurd excuses for Kemp’s defiant
dereliction of his duty as governor - or that
Republican voters remain silent? And how is
Republican Kemp any better on illegal
immigration than Democrat Joe Biden?
Suicide. In 2020, it was officially reported that
95% of patients who killed themselves using
Oregon’s so-called “death with dignity” law
was enrolled in Hospice at the time of death.
It is significant
that the American
Academy of
Hospice and
Palliative
Medicine
(AAHPM) “takes
a position of
studied neutrality
on the subject of
whether PAD
[physician-assisted death] should be legally
permitted or prohibited.” Neutrality gives the
green light to Assisted Suicide as surely as
support does.
Also, there is more than one way to assist a
suicide. For instance, some Hospices facilitate
Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking
(VSED), particularly in states that do not
permit physicians to prescribe drugs for
patients to commit suicide. VSED means that a
patient, who is capable of eating and drinking,
chooses to refuse
food and fluids
with the
intention to
cause death. This
is suicide.
When a
hospice supports
this decision by
providing
palliative care as
the patient starves and dehydrates to death, the
suicide is assisted - not prevented - by the
hospice.
The only real antidote to Assisted Suicide is
to make it illegal everywhere, in all
circumstances, and by any means. Law is a
great teacher.
Their loved one was alert and not
complaining of pain. After admission to
hospice, increasingly frequent and larger
doses of pain medications, anti-anxiety drugs,
and sedatives were administered to the point
where he or she was sleeping all the time and
could not eat or drink. Some reported that
patients were denied usual medications...
Freedoms we have put down in the
West, particularly the Freedom of
Speech is predicated on the
viewpoint that human existence is
worthwhile, that we should orient
ourselves continually upward. Some
people think this is a good idea and
ome people take the opposite tack.
Like America, you are watching the
collapse of a democratic western
ivilization country. It is happening
one step at a time.”
—Jordan Peterson on the recent
ecline of freedoms in Canada—
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