DamSpot’s World

Tuesday, July 08 2008 @ 04:13 PM PDT
Contributed by: CinDan
General NewsSome of you will remember our niece Brittani, who was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma when she was 15. Brittani underwent chemotherapy to kill off the cancer, which worked. Unfortunately, the chemo also killed off her lungs. Brittani had a double lung transplant in May 2007 to correct this.

For the first year after the surgery, things went fairly well. She went diabetic, then not diabetic, then back to being diabetic, which she remains. For most of the year following her recovery, Brittani got to act like a normal kid, albeit an extra careful one, since her immune system is suppressed by the anti-rejection drugs she must take.

But in the past few months, she has started to lose lung function.

There is no sign of organ rejection, no infection…and no answers.

So the doctors want to perform an open chest biopsy of her lungs, to see if they can discover why her lung function is decreasing.

Her insurance is about gone, due to reaching her “lifetime maximum benefits” - as a teenager.

And the medication, constant doctor visits, travel and missed work, and a ton of other stuff has left Brittani’s parents in dire financial need.

We have come here today to ask for your help. We are drowning, and once the insurance is gone, it is only going to get worse.

We don’t know what is going to happen to Brittani without your help. All we know is that family wide we have exhausted every conceivable financial tool available to us to help her.

We’ve asked corporations, both large and small, that we do business with on a regular basis, for help, and have received…none. What government assistance is available has been exhausted as well, and there is nothing left there, either.

So please help Brittani. Please donate to Brittani here.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. If you would like to know more about Brittani, her condition, and our efforts to help her, you can click here.

Cindy & Dan

PS - Brittani got to graduate with her class last month. She wants to go to college now - she’s decided she wants to become a nurse…

When Tom Ridge was in charge of Homeland Security (Remember the color chart?) He encouraged people to purchase cases of bottled water, plastic sheeting and my favorite….Duct Tape.
This was a pretty funny list, considering that I grew up in the generation who thought that ducking under your school desk would save you from an Atomic Blast.

However, we do need to have a list pretty soon, unless you want to be eating at soup kitchens in another 6 months.

Do try to stock up on canned foods, but be warned that canned tomato products and mushrooms do not have a long shelf life.
Pick low acid foods that you cannot grow in your own gardens. High acid foods, such as many garden grown fruits can be home canned in jars.

As far as frozen foods, as long as you have electricity will work fine. Having a generator helps as long as you can get fuel, so it’s advisable, despite the current prices, to store gasoline in approved containers in locked sheds away from the house. How much is anyones guess.

Having a hand gun or rifle is also a good idea. Keep a few thousand rounds of ammunition separate from the weapon, but close enough if needed.

Having a large water garden (Pond) dug in your yard is a good source of water in an emergency. Boiling water in a pinch will work, and you can keep bass and trout as pets until needed.

Try and keep as little cash in a bank as you can. If a bank goes down at the same time as the government, the FDIC isn’t going to save your ass.

Get rid of credit cards. When all else fails, those bastards will still come after you for their money. Same with any mutual stocks.

Know your neighbors. Even in an apartment complex you can all help each other and repel any problems that may occur. Remember, homeless people, no matter what class they came from are going to be terribly desperate scrounging food, water and fuel. The suburbs are no safer no matter how far from the city you are.

And for God’s sake, watch your children. There are idiots out there who will steal them and use them for currency.

Trust me, if you think anything you read about 1929 is scary, you haven’t seen anything yet!

Thanks, George Bush.

Damspot has been having severe health issues, but has become intrigued with the letters R & N.
What these 2 letters represent is Religion.

Has Damspot gone on one of his Jew baiting tirades again? No. Not at all.

First off, let’s discuss what religion is. Religions, over the years have had many Gods to worship. There was Thor, Neptune, and many others. Then, Judaism, came along, then Christianity, and finally Muslim. What did they have in common? Moral control over there people. For without morals, we will run willy-nilly all over the place. Religion has always been a way to control the people. Love thy neighbor, the Ten Commandments, Do unto others and on and on.

Where the problems began is when different people had different views on what the passages in the Bible, Koran or many of the other religious groups meant to them. So they splintered into different sects, churches, Mosques or what ever.
They then referred their beliefs as religion.
Catholics dislike Lutherans. Episcopalians hate the Roman church. Baptists dislike most other ‘religions’ for being too loose, they also dislike Fundamentalists who tell it like it is. And, there are divisions there. Why do you think there are so many store front churches?

So, what we have here are not moral issues, but definitive issues as to how each book should relate to their actions.
While all books preach peace, there are terms such as “An eye for an eye” or ‘’Vengeance is mine'’ or ‘’Smite thy enemies.'’
So, they skip over the peace part and go right to war.
Let’s see. We have the Orthodox Russians, but they are described as a ‘Godless people’. We have the Muslims, who can’t seem to get along with themselves, let alone anyone else, so they are all enemies of Christianity. Jews are hated because some idiot, banished to a cave, during Roman times, wrote a book called ‘Revelations’ that says’s that if everyone doesn’t bow to Jesus and become Christians, they are all going to hell.

Lets talk a little about hell, or purgatory. What to know where this came from? Before the time of Jesus, there was a garbage dump, outside of Jerusalem that burned 24 hours a day. The locals referred to it as Purgatory and would scare their children by telling them if they didn’t behave, that is where they would end up.
So, now we have gone from a burning dump to tithing at church every Sunday to buy our way into whatever you think heaven is, to avoid going to hell.

There is no country on earth that could successfully be ruled by Atheists. Why? They don’t scare themselves with morals, based on religion. However, they still practice them because of the very religion they don’t subscribe to.

Let’s try a little experiment.

Let’s make religion go away. None of this ‘My God is better than your God’. Most if not all religions base their beliefs that there is a God. That is something nearly everyone can agree on. Where the similarities break down are with the prophets.

Now, all you Christians get over your fit about Jesus being the son of God. All Prophets proclaim the same thing.

Get over it. There is but ONE GOD. Forget the books. Forget the prophets.

Just remember that we are all just people, attached to a very unstable spinning blue ball.

Share the food, share the water, share the wealth. Share the peace between all men and woman that GOD intended.
Stop trying to read your own definitions into books that, at their best, have been changed to fit the times repeatedly over the years.

Believe in one GOD. Share that belief. Forget heaven, forget hell. Just worry about what you have to deal with as you live.
What difference is it truly going to make where you go when you are dead?

If you don’t live now, and in peace, then you are all going to go to that burning trash dump.

I always wondered how it felt when you saw Jerry’s kids stumbling across the stage on the little walkers.
I always wondered how Roosevelt managed to go 3 terms with Polio and keep smiling.

Well, I have something going on with my back that is slowly robbing me of the ability to walk.
They are going to treat it as a pinched nerve on Friday, so all I can do is hope for the best. Right now I am pretty much trapped in a 9 by 12 foot room with a lot of computers to keep me company.
As far as getting down the stairs, going down is OK, but coming back up is impossible, and that’s where the bathroom is, so you can see my dilemma.
Please say a prayer that it’s only a pinched nerve and nothing worse.

For those readers who are wondering what a ‘record’ is, it used to be the common mode for listening to music that wasn’t live. They were made of a rigid plastic we called vinyl.
When they were played too often, someone would tire of them and break one.

If you missed it, that was an analogy.

There cannot, apparently by a mandate, be any news out of Israel that does not contain one of the following words:
Holocaust
Auschwitz
Anti-semitic
Nazi
Germany
Death Trains

Apparently it is deemed by the Jewish faith to carry these words around on a 3x5 index card in case they are called on for an opinion of what everyone else in the world is doing.

Forget about the atrocities committed against the Palestinians from 1948 to present.
Forget the fact that any nuclear technology that Israel has, they stole.
Forget about Israel having nuclear weapons that they are itching to use, and in the case of Iraq and Syria, may have already tried.

But, by golly, don’t forget about an event that occurred nearly 70 years ago and whose memory is kept alive by the constant wailing of a group of hypocrites, who’s own hands have less justification for the blood on them, then the shouts against all others.

Can’t you idiots see why half the damn world wants you gone?

I guess it’s time for Damspot to bring out his foil hat again.
The only thing that’s been wrong with the ‘foil hat’ is that ‘ol Spot has been right every time.

So, here’s the latest.

If anyone is convinced that 9/11 was the end of troubles, you are sorely wrong.

First off, Damspot is among the millions that blame the Bush Gang and Israel for 9/11.
Damspot is also aware that that ruckus over the ‘6′ missiles being flown over the US on a B-52 was no fluke. He also knows that only 5 arrived.

It ain’t rocket science. Bomber with 6 nuc’s leaves one air base and arrives at second air base with 5.
Now, since it was a government flight, there is no paper work involved. Also, Air Traffic Controllers are taught to ignore military flights, if thats what the transponder told them. The military has been known to use civil aircraft transponders on their flights.

Somewhere between point A and point B there is a nuclear cruise missile…..but, the real money sez’ that it has been already moved to where they intend to set it off.

Now why would they nuke our own country?

What does Bush want? He wants to be a King or a Dictator for one. He also wants to attack Iran for Israel.
He also knows. that with all the screw ups by himself and the rest of his party, that there ain’t a chance in hell a Republican can win in 2008.
He also knows that there are enough people put there who will take his ass to an International court for hanging when all the truths are exposed.

So, what the hell. He kills a few more Thousand people in his lust to turn the tide his way.

Big deal! Doesn’t appear he is too sorry for the WTC.

So, keep your eyes open folks. A big KaBoom might be coming to a location near you soon!

In the news today.

PANAMA CITY, Florida (AP) — Eight former boot camp workers were acquitted of manslaughter Friday in the death of a 14-year-old boy who was videotaped being punched and kicked. The scene sparked outrage and changes in the juvenile system, but it took jurors just 90 minutes to decide it was not a crime.

Not a Crime?
The damn thing was video taped!
If I were that family, I would hunt down every one of those jurors and make their lives miserable.

Read the rest of this crap.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Religious Right Strangely Silent About Foley
If there’s one thing you have to concede to America’s Religious Right, it’s that these folks have an amazing media and public relations network and can issue press releases, get on television and radio and, when they really want to, mobilize their lemming-like flock faster than Jack Abramoff can bribe a Republican Congressman.

And yet here we sit, four days after it was revealed that Republican Congressman Mark Foley was using the Internet to go after teenaged boys, and all you can hear from our own little version of the Taliban is dead quiet and crickets chirping.

Odd, isn’t it? The same people who can move their followers to boycott any company that believes gay people even have the right to exist, can’t muster much outrage over one of their own preying on young boys and, more importantly, the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives ignoring it to save their political hides.

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