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iePolitics: Morality and Politics

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Some berate us for suggesting that a politician’s personal life is an important indicator of how they will serve in public life.  I will continue to argue that a public figure who is incapable of honoring the most cherished covenants between God and man, that of matrimony and parenthood, is equally incapable of fulfilling his obligations to those who elected him to office.  As constituents we cannot expect better treatment from someone who lies and cheats on his family. Continue reading →

iePolitics: Blood Stains Revisited

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In less than 24 hours since I posted the original piece, I have received no less than three phone calls from those who are also having thoughts of suicide over some aspect of what some one on the Fifth Floor has done to affect their life.  All have sought counseling and I’ve put others in touch with a couple of them just to be sure they know there is a support system out there.  There is comfort in knowing that you are not alone but a great deal of anger knowing there are so many of us and that it all goes back to those who are charged with running this county with integrity shirking their responsibility in lieu of their own self interests.

Politicians are a selfish lot but I do believe here in San Bernardino County we are blessed with the worst of the worse.  I do believe we have the most shameful elected leaders in the state, if not the country.

iePolitics: Where does right end and wrong begin?

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I was chatting with a friend a few weeks ago and he was riled up over Mark Kirk.  He commented that he wanted to make Kirk feel pain.  He wasn’t talking about physical pain, but the emotional pain he was feeling and which he blames on Kirk.  I had a very hard time understanding how one could hate that much.  I even talked to Mark about it because I couldn’t fathom what Mark could have done to bring about that much animosity from another human.

Here we are just a few short weeks later and I feel the same way.  I confessed to my therapist in my group today and I didn’t get taken 5150 so I know can now safely admit this here, but a week ago today I was so distaught at what Mark had done that for the first time since my problem with the suicidal thoughts started on October 8, 2008, I made the only totally serious attempt.  I started with ten Trazadon, followed by five Tramadol fifteen minutes later and then rotated with five pills every fifteen minutes for several hours.

I was so sick of Mark discounting my feelings I just wanted to show him how much he hurt me, not that he would give a crap, but ones mind is not thinking coherently when this is going on.  I remember with each group of five pills I was convinced they would be the ones that would finally knock me out.  I kept wondering when I was going to die and was getting really mad that it didn’t happen. Continue reading →