Technology of Our Fathers
Hemp Car Ford Made..they had the idea from Henry himself!
Unlike many other articles I have written, this will start with my research information and I will provide my interpretation of the facts as they exist. The following are the ready listings of information about electric cars: Nova(PBS), Hybrid Technology Animation , Zap Car Sports Model , Chevy Volt Info , Toyota Prius Info , and the list does go on. Where you look is not as important as how you are guided internally. The holidays are upon us and our internal desire for what is right for each other moves closer to the surface. I really want this world of large tax deductible land crawlers that waste finite resources to vanish from the earth! I am compiling a large amount of research and will continue to post the resources you can read and follow along. I apologize but I am producing a rather large paper on the simplest of things, cars.It is taking some time to write and patience will hopefully bring you some type of reward!
Coffee with Sarge Show Takes Holiday Break
The next 2 Sundays there will not be a live show because Jeff and I are going to take time off to enjoy the holidays. The show and Jeff’s show will return after New Year’s.
We wish all a happy holidays and you can watch this site as well as Jeff’s since both Jeff and I will be posting on things we feel we should discuss with you our wonderful supporters. Thanks and have a great holiday season.
Here is an email I read on the air from Monique that I would like to share here. I thinks she captures the idea of what is important in this Christmas Season.
I received many emails this morning on the war on Christmas so I sent this email out in reply today -
I’m going to step in here and remind everyone the real gift of Christmas and its meaning.
Yes, it is the birth of Jesus but the birth of Jesus goes beyond that. We were all given a gift from Jesus on Christmas and that was the gift of love and giving to each other. The gift of giving to each other is not the pricey gifts we give to our families but it is the love we give to each other no matter the status of each of us. We get caught up in gift giving, we get caught up in decorations, we get caught up in food treats and meals, but do wet get caught up in giving to those in need? So you say, these people who are on the streets or have nothing want it that way - so you really believe that Mary and Joseph wanted it that way? Hey guys, there is a real lesson in the first Christmas that we all forget. The first family had nothing, they had no place to go, they had no money, no credit cards, no computer, no phones including cell phones, no TV - THEY HAD NOTHING BUT EACH OTHER! They gave birth to this loving Jesus who watched out for the poor, the man who accepted everyone except those who were interested in the $$$’s. Jesus accepted the sinner. He accepted people who were different, he accepted people who sinned, he accepted the doubters - he just accepted everyone. Why can’t we do this today in our modern age?
We are so busy ripping each other apart! We forget the real meaning of Christmas - Christmas is every day of the year, not once a year. I really don’t give a ding dong of the person’s color, nationality, appearances etc. - it is what is within that person that counts. It is up to me a child of God to spread the love and caring throughout the year, not just at Christmas time.
Christmas for me is to remember what is the reason for the birth and carry this through the year.
This war on Christmas is truly stupid - why is there not a war on Christmas any other time of the year? Oh, we can only celebrate love once a year? We can only celebrate Christmas with lights and decorations? We can only have Angels in our homes during Christmas? No, war on Christmas is senseless………… let’s celebrate Christmas all year round - and get rid of the hate that is so dominant everywhere everyday.
I do celebrate the birth of Christ but hopefully celebrating throughout the year - that is the real meaning and purpose of Christmas.
By the way, those who think the poor want to be where they are at ——— try living in their shoes for a while. Let’s see if you are happy wearing those shoes. I’ve known a few homeless - that is not where they want to be but it is not that easy to pull yourself up by the bootstraps believe me.
I have only a few decorations - my Angels who are in my home throughout the year — I don’t need a tree or glittering lights to remind me of the birth of Jesus. I know his birthday - I know my birthday and others and I will celebrate in private with each.
Hopefully this makes sense but I think we all miss the point of Christmas
December 14 Show
Guest: Tyler Christenson
Tyler is a musician so the music will be live in studio. We will talk about transportation issues that face our nation on a local as well as national level.
Sarge Fills in on Genesis Network Saturday
Sarge will be guest hosting for Lt. Eric Shine on his show on the Genesis Communications Network Saturday afternoon 3pm to 5pm central time. You can stream the show at jefffariasshow.com or Genesis Network or
WQRZ website and WQRZ-FM in Waveland MS. will try to air the show live as well.
Guest will be Jesse Fineran, and Brice Phillips with others from the Katrina Area.
Call in numbers are the same as they are for Sunday Morning Coffee With Sarge Show.
Never Enough Time for Nurses
As a nurse in this nation, I am proud to care for the people in my charge and not scared of hard work. I am not, however, proud of the companies that are for profit and making money on the over burdened backs of the nursing staff. Employers across the nation scream about nursing shortages all the time. Yes, they are correct in the nation does not have enough nurses working in hospitals. The time allocated for each patient makes hospital nursing the job that does barely a service at all. Time management goes to the center of the argument for nursing patient to staff ratios. Just like any other corporation, hospitals for profit want more production and to stretch the “patient care dollar”. Nursing does the stretching and the time just gets broken down until you never see a nurse in your room.
Nurses are the backbone of any medical system and the back has been broken. Critical shortages are in the mass media and a “dire need for nurses” are always touted. Do they ever point to the reasons why? Nurses make good money, have educations that are transferable, and job security is a given. Sick people cannot be outsource to India, Mexico, or anywhere else. Why are they leaving? A simple reason is burn out and over work. Nurses care for a much larger group of very medically complex patients in hospitals today. People are living longer because the eyes and ears of the MD are ever present in the care process. Not so in America! We have a lower life expectancy than our Canadian brothers and sisters. Corporations in America have pressed the nurse to patient ratios out to and over the edge of viable care in many states. Overworked nurses want to leave the hospital and specialize in what pays the rent and easier due the the unreasonable expectations of employers. Why kill yourself and maybe someone else because you don’t have a reasonable and safe patient ratio?
Have you ever met a drug representative or medical product rep? They are almost to the person an RN that left care settings for more money and much less stress. Nurses have so many outside then hospital jobs that insurance companies use their knowledge with telenursing(calling to check up nurse), environmental health nurses(factory nurse), medical device nurses(sells pacemakers etc), and the list goes on. Large profits are to be made and the nurses get some of that profit through their sales ability. Do you blame a nurse for this? I do not at all. I blame the screwed up medical system in the nation that puts profit before people. Ask a nurse if he or she wants 8 patients to care for working 12 hours or to host a luncheon and sell something in a nice dress or suit. Easy answer for most, show me the money and I will make your pitch. 12 hours sounds long but is it really?
Time is the factor that presses nurses out of facilities. 8 patients for 12 hours. If the math is applied to each patient getting equal care, a little over one hour is all you get with no lunch and no breaks for the nurse. Reviewing the chart, taking report, giving report to the oncoming nurse, and just going to pee have to be counted in there. Time gets shorter with each time intensive event. Now add a really sick patient in the mix of the 8 and the attention shifts from the 8 to the one for longer. You may not get anything for hours if a nurse has a truly sick patient and has your room assigned. Medications take 30-60 seconds each to verify and give each patient. Many elderly now have 15 pills in a given day to maintain their fragile health. The law in most all states require medicines to be given on time(within one hour) for every pill. 8 patients with 10 pills each is not possible within the law for medication administration. How do they get done on time? Nurses have to cut corners to the edge of liability they assume, not the facility. They are giving the pills and having to run to do it. Who wants to volunteer for this duty now? $100,000 a year easily with minimal overtime sounds great to me!
Safety and conscience dictate a better environment in our hospitals. Unions have made strides in some states to get the nurse to patient ratios placed into law. California has a 5 to 1 ratio and nurses have flocked there to work. Unions may be the only answer as the corporations lobbyists keep the lawmakers focused on the shortage without telling them why it exists. The standard line is ” if we mandate the ratio to something, we will be in violation every day because the nurses do not exist to staff.” That is a lie and tells only half the story, they don’t mention the reason staff does not exist. The burned them out and they left due to the workload. It is a rigged game that only money and power can change. Power of the people in calling their government and asking for fundamental changes in health care. Money for the nurses that choose to work in a facility that makes them want to stay and work. HR676 can bring the patients in and the profit out.
We just need a nurse corp for our nation we the people fund. Make part of your new years resolution to bring change to your family and their coming health needs. Call your congressional representative and make them aware of your concerns about nursing overwork and the need for a corp of nurses. Fund an education for nurses and make the an ability repay the loan be through care in a system that we all fund, the Veterans Administration. Make a change, make care come to the health care industry, and stop the for profit machine that care only about how little you get from them. Be the Change!! Yes WE Can! (202) 224-3121 is your access to Congress! It is right at your service! A quickly dialed number and the switchboard will find your representative for you! Give them your zip code and you will be transferred right to the office.
David