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2009-08-16T02:39:00.000-07:00

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Maureen Dowd writes an article in the New York Times called "The Ghoulish Carousel" as Rove pushed fear, again, into the hearts and minds of the American people through Sarah Palin's Facebook account.

I think that President Obama's so-called "Kennedy-like White House brain trust" has been co-opted by the sly Karl Rove to align our middle class against intelligent social reform, not socialism. Obama needs to grow some thick skin and get under the skin of conservative republicans with some American middle class punches to the middle of these republican lies and fear tactics...Wayne Dennis Kurtz.

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Sarah’s Ghoulish Carousel

By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: August 15, 2009

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I’m not sure the man who popped off and tweeted that Sonia Sotomayor was a “Latina woman racist” is the best Henry Higgins for the Eliza Doolittle of Alaska.

But Newt Gingrich was a professor. And he does know something about pulling yourself up by dragging down others and imploding when you take center stage — both Palin specialties.

Besides, he agrees with Sarah — who fretted that her parents and son Trig might be in danger from Obama “death panels” — that we should be very wary about trusting government with end-of-life decisions.

So Newt took it upon himself to become Palin’s Pygmalion. He told Politico that the out-of-work pol should write a book; take a commentator gig on TV; get a condo in D.C. or New York to use as an East Coast base; and prepare three types of speeches — one “to make money,” another to “project her brand” before universities and interest groups, and a vivid campaign stump speech to use for Republican candidates in 2010.

Most important, he advised, the dizzy Palin has to be “clear in her own head what she wants to do.”

At the moment, what she wants to do is tap into her visceral talent for aerial-shooting her favorite human prey: cerebral Ivy League Democrats.

Just as she was able to stir up the mob against Barack Obama on the trail, now she is fanning the flames against another Harvard smarty-pants — Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a White House health care adviser and the older brother of Rahmbo.

She took a forum, Facebook, more commonly used by kids hooking up and cyberstalking, and with one catchy phrase, several footnotes and a zesty disregard for facts, managed to hijack the health care debate from Mr. Obama.

Sarahcuda knows, from her brush with Barry on the campaign trail, that he is vulnerable on matters that demand a visceral and muscular response rather than a logical and book-learned one. Mr. Obama was charming and informed at his town hall in Montana on Friday, but he’s going to need some sustained passion, a clear plan and a narrative as gripping as Palin’s I-see-dead-people scenario.

She has successfully caricatured the White House health care effort, making it sound like the plot of the 1976 sci-fi movie “Logan’s Run,” about a post-apocalyptic society with limited resources where you can live only until age 30, when you must take part in an extermination ceremony called “Carousel” or flee the city.

Painting the Giacometti-esque Emanuel as a creepy Dr. Death, Palin attacked him on her Facebook page a week ago, complaining that his “Orwellian thinking” could lead to a “death panel” with bureaucrats deciding whether to pull the plug on less hardy Americans.

Never mind that Palin herself had endorsed some of the same end-of-life counseling she now depicts as putting Grandma down.

As the Democratic National Committee pointed out, Palin put out a 2008 proclamation for Healthcare Decisions Day “to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions, related to end of life care ... and to encourage the specific use of advance directives to communicate these important healthcare decisions.”

Consistency was long ago sent to a death panel in Palin world.

Sensing traction, she took more shots against Dr. Emanuel, quoting the bioethicist’s past writing that some medical services might not be guaranteed to those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens. ... An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”

“Dr. Emanuel,” she wrote ominously, “has also advocated basing medical decisions on a system which ‘produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.’ ”

She crowed that she had him on the run, and the White House felt that the doctor, who was being portrayed as a proponent of euthanasia, needed to get out there and explain his opposition to euthanasia. So he interrupted his hiking vacation in the Italian Alps to give a raft of phone interviews saying he was taken out of context and calling Palin’s charges “completely off the wall.”

But, much to Sarah’s delight, he also conceded to The Washington Times that his “thinking has evolved” on the “very vexing” issue of deciding who gets treatment and who doesn’t.

“When I began working in the health policy area about 20 years ago ... I thought we would definitely have to ration care, that there was a need to make a decision and deny people care,” he told the paper, adding that he now feels that if we get rid of expensive “unnecessary care” that “we would have absolutely no reason to even consider rationing except in a few cases.”

A few cases? Sounds like another Facebook entry for Sarah.

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One week later on the very sad Anniversary of our Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...August 6, 1945.

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Turn, turn, turn...Eccleisiastes.

2009-08-05T07:39:00.000-07:00

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turn, turn, turn - BYRDS

To every thing    turn, turn, turn There is a season    turn, turn, turn And a time  to every purpose under heaven A time to be born  A time to die A time to plant  A time to reap  A time to kill   A time to heal A time to laugh  A time to weep  To every thing  turn, turn, turn There is a season  turn, turn, turn And a time   to every purpose under heaven A to build up  A time to break down A time to dance  A time to mourn A time to cast away stones  A time to gather stones together  To every thing  turn, turn, turn There is a season  turn, turn, turn And a time  to every purpose under heaven A time of love  A time of hate A time of war  A time of peace A time you may embrace  A time to refrain from embracing  To every thing  turn, turn, turn There is a season  turn, turn, turn And a time  to every purpose under heaven A time to gain  A time to lose A time to rend  A time to sew A time for love  A time for hate A time for peace  I swear it's not too late

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

1] To every thing   There is a season  And a time to every purpose under heaven 2]  A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant,  and a time to pluck up that which was planted; 3]  A time to kill,  and a time to heal;... 4] A time to weep,  and a time to laugh;...  1]   3]... A time to break down, and a time to build up; 4]...A time to mourn,  and a time to dance; 5]A time to cast away stone, and a time to gather stones together;...  1]    8] A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war,  and a time of peace. 5]... a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;  1]   6] A time to get,  and a time to lose;... 7] A time to rend,  and a time to sew; 8] A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war,  and a time of peace.

THE SERENity Prayer...

2009-08-04T06:07:00.000-07:00

Mom nel Giardino...

Thank you all and be well...Wayne.


The Serenity Prayer
	God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen. --Reinhold Niebuhr In loving memory of Fr Bertram Griffin -- 1932-2000 Requiescat in Pace
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths.

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I thank you, each and everyone one of you, for your kind support and prayers...Wayne.

2009-08-03T07:08:00.000-07:00

In Memoriam di Nina Anna Granata... Nato 6 gennaio 1926 Morte 30 luglio 2009.
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This life is very short and very difficult.

Today is a good day to live out your dreams and place your nightmares behind you.

Please continue to pray for me and my Italian Mother...

Nina.

I love you, Mom.. Wayne.

2009-08-01T05:18:00.000-07:00

Nina Anna Granata found refuge in her garden and "hid" from the gross injustices and pain and suffering of a very cruel world in the fruit trees and roses that she nurtured for fifty six years with her bare hands.

My Mother with my Brother, Peewee.

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+ NINA ANNA GRANATA +

Nato 6 gennaio 1926 Morto 30 luglio 2009

So, this is that day that I had rehearsed 10,000 times in my head: my Italian Mother, Nina Anna Granata, has died in my presence.

Then, I ask, why can I not see this computer screen through a fog of my tears? Why can I not stop crying? I do not understand this -here is a Mother who never said to me "I love you, Wayne" or hugged or touched me, unless I was coming out of an eight hour double-bypass heart surgery at GOOD Samaritan hospital?

I am sixty-two years old as my Mother never missed an opportunity to criticize me as she walked by me. Never.

The answer is this: No, I am not a glutton for punishment.

My take on Nina Anna Granata, my Italian Mother from Caserta, Italia, was that she was a very clever actress. (It is funny to me that we human beings, immediately after a loved one dies, refer to that person in the past tense -was. Immediately. My Mother was Nina Anna Granata was, is, and will always be Nina Anna Granata).

Nina was such a clever actress because she belied the chronic physical spiritual and emotional pain of a post World War II Italian Mother. We live in a very politically-correct time when no one likes to blame someone else for anything wrong. "Do not point fingers" as you do not want to "offend anyone or hurt someone's feelings." It's all good, ya know. NO WORRIES. Life is copiasettic.

For those in-the-know, life is tough and full of hardship and hard work. As Tina Turner sang, "Some of us like it hard and tough." She, as a battered wife, should know...

My fingers are pointed at the abuse, the neglect and the hypocrisy of a post World War II Italian family in Caserta, Italy, and a completely apathetic, boring and pathetic middle class noncalance that pervaded the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA after the War. Like Sophia Loren in "Two Women," Nina Anna Granata developed an acrid exterior to defend herself against the abuse, the rapes, the beatings of a very patriarchal-machismo world. Her Granata family rejected her, totally. Mom used to wake up, many times, in the middle of the night, "Screaming, Crying profusely, and Flaying her hands in fear." That was learned behaviour. She was not born with that. So, Giuseppe Granata -the consummate tax collector and smuggler like Joe Kennedy- why did you and your sons and your daughters terrorize, rape and beat my Mother? She was so petite and cute -as she never reached five feet tall. She was born in Caserta but sported beautiful deep blue Paul Newman eyes, even when they rolled back in your head as you lay dying on the bedroom floor. Is this why Paul Newman is my favourite actor? Is this why Sophia Loren is my favoutie actress -tough hard chocolate on the outside and milky-white cream, on the inside?

Nina Anna Granata, you see, was the last child out of fourteen children in Southern Italy. She was also the prettiest, the smartest and the most sensitive. I saw Mom come back from electric shock treatment in the sixties at the Camarillo mental hospital as she had outstretched her arms, like Jesus Christ in his Crucifixion, and she died like this as well. Nina took on the world with her anger and rebellious attitude. She was like a Chihuahua dog who fought the big dogs with everything she had. Nina was extremely critical and mean and resolute on the outside. SHE WAS SO SOFT AND LOVING AND VULNERABLE ON THE INSIDE. My Father, Walter or "Wally" Kurtz, was a humble and gentle man who had lied about his age to volunteer for the UNITED STATES ARMY in World War II, just to escape from the, you guessed it, the beatings, the rapes and the humiliations of a very predatory Lutheran home in Chicago. Think about it: my Dad would rather face being shot at by the insane GERMAN NAZIS than continue to live in that foster home. What does that tell you?

That foster home, as I now remember it, was called an orphanage. I, too, see life from the lonely eyes of an orphan. I loved my parents dearly but they were "emotionally dead" from their childhood scars. I wonder why God had put them together in Caserta, Italy? Why did my God allow me to be raped emotionally and physically and spiritually by FATHER MARK A. FALVEY, S. J., at Blessed Sacrament Church when I was an altar boy in the sixties? Why did my God allow this child molestation to happen to me and other innocent children? Why did my God place me as an English teacher at Firebaugh High School in Lynwood where the alleged child molester, former Firebaugh principal Jonas Silverio, was recently indicted on 17 counts of child molestaton? Today, Jonas Silverio is wearing an orange jump suit in the Los Angeles County jail as he awaits his tiral? Good questions with no answers. Good luck blaming GOD. Even better luck in suing Him or Her...:)

Intellectually, I know that my Mother is dead. She is not coming back to cook for me and wash for me and to complain what a lazy son that I had become. Emotionally, I can not accept the fact that Callanan mortuary in Glendale is replacing my Mother's blood with embalming fluid, today. The tears flow, on cue, automatically.

Look, if you want to feel sorry for me, please do so. I have been a Mamma's boy, all of my life. Who is going to cut my hair now? Who is going to cut my moustache and occasionally cut my lip with the scissors? Who is going to pray for me in the Good Samaritan chapel FOR EIGHT STRAIGHT HOURS while I was barely alive from my heart surgery on the fifth floor? Who is gong to protect me now? Who is going to stick up for me, now? Who is going to chase the squirrels from eating her fruit in the garden? Who is going to speak that beautiful fluent Italian to my nice Aunt, Angela, in Caserta, on the telephone? Who is going to sit next to me in my VW Jetta when we went to Saint Ambrose church for Mass or to go grocery shopping. Yes, it's getting tough, again, and all of you know what I am talking about, don't you?

It is the little things, isn't it?

I know in my heart-of-heart that my Mother, Nina Anna Granata, loved me with her whole being. At seventeen years old, Nina was already damaged goods by the time she had met my handsome Father, Walter Kurtz, a master sergeant from Chicago. And, yes, my Father was damaged as well. The truth is that we all have been damaged by "the system" or life or the Catholic Church or the government or whatever.

My Mother often told me how she kept an overnight vigil at the bedside of her dead Father, Giuseppe Granata, in Caserta on VIA ROMA. She told me how was rubbed virgin olive oil on his skin as it broke up in rigor mortice. And so, God gave me the opportunity to honour and respect my Mother, Nina Anna Granata, in the same way: my neighbor, Andy, on Greenace gave me some oil to rub on my Mom's body as she lay dying on the bedroom floor. I changed my Mom and kissed her on her rigid lips as God ushered into the Next World. Mom had told me in this what-was-to-be-the-last-week-in-her-life that my Brother Peewee and my Father Walter had come into her bedroom to beckon her to follow her into heaven. She got to do so at 10:30 pm on Thursday, July 30, 2009, at 1129 Greenacre Avenue in her bedroom. I was so blessed to be there with her and I thank God for that moment.

Last night, the roving drunks from the local "club" on Santa Monica Boulevard were making their usual loud and obnoxious noises at 2 am in front of our house. I had no instincts to call the police or chase them away because my Mother's body is in the mortuary today. I do not have to defend or protect her, anymore.

So, I am pleading for your prayers. Please pray for the soul -the anima- of my Italian Mother, Nina Anna Granata. I would give anything to have her back for one day so that she could complain about her lazy son. I am not suicidal but I am very weak right now. I do not feel like sleeping or eating. My friends and neighbors like Terri and Alex and Taylor are feeding me and taking care of me. Chuck and Marylou and Robert and Dr. Kowalcyk and Dr. Shiele are calling me to make sure that I am okay.

I am using my AA life skills to "LIVE ONE DAY AT A TIME," sometimes one moment at a time. Again, feel free to feel sorry for me. I will take it. I am looking around for a reason to go on, to exist. Please pray for me to get the "strength and courage" when we have to fight the LA County and probate court, who give new meaning to the words "heartless and ruthless."

My body is also reeling in pain from my work-related injuries while teaching at Firebaugh. I need your prayers and I sincerely thank you in advance. Hopefully, if I get healthier soon, I can help my students who have been abused and neglected to help themselves to a good education and a healthy life. That is my motivation to go on. Nothing else...

I miss you, Mom...I'll always love you, Mom. I am so sorry that you suffered so much in this very cruel world. I am so sorry that I disappointed you with my lifelong depression and anxiety from being raped as well as a child. Please touch me now, Mom, and hug me, now, Mom, from Heaven because you no longer have to act like you are not in chronic pain. You do not have to hide anymore, Mom, behind your beautiful fruit trees in the garden. You do not have to pretend anymore, Mom, that you did not love me or care for me.

I am an actor, too, as I have always known that you loved me.

I will not expedite my death but I look forward to being with my Mom and my Dad and my Brother and my dog Bear in heaven.

I will see you soon, Mom, and please make a safe place on your lap so that you can gently stroke my hair and not be afraid to say "I love, you, Wayne."

I know that you are now sitting at the feet of Jesus and Mary and Joseph a cielo.

In your memory and honour, I chase away the squirrels and bring flowers to the statue of Saint Joseph and water your roses and fruit trees.

I can never say "goodbye" to you, Mom, but will continue your work here for social justice on earth and healing for abused and neglected orphans...

"I love you, Mom, and I feel your love for me, always"...I am your loving son, Wayne.

I genuinely thank each and everyone of you for taking your valuable time to read about my Mom's life and death. I pray to my God that you and your familes are blessed with good health and peace of mind.

VOILA...:)

2009-07-30T16:52:00.000-07:00

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

SUPERVISORS THREATEN STATE WITH LAWSUIT

The latest state budget proposal is called a "heist" and “morally bankrupt” by county officials who fear massive cuts.

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, smiles at Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, second from right and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, after emerging from his office to announce an agreement has been reached to solve California's budget problem.

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LOS ANGELES — Calling a plan to use local funds to balance the state’s budget a “scheme,” a “heist” and “morally bankrupt,” county supervisors agreed Tuesday to sue the state if that scenario becomes a reality.

Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky recommended that the county counsel be directed to file legal challenges to any action that extends the state’s redevelopment projects without a finding of blight or any withholding of Highway User Tax Account funds.

“For the state to balance its budget on the backs of the state residents most in need of help, and the counties that serve them, is fiscally reckless and morally bankrupt,” Yaroslavsky said.

County staff acknowledged that the details of the state’s proposals were not clear, but the board’s action was intended to allow counsel to move immediately upon passage of legislation at the state level.

The board’s action anticipates that the current state budget proposal, if passed, would extend redevelopment projects in order to take property tax revenues that would otherwise be returned to local municipalities.

Yaroslavsky said such a move, which he called “unconstitutional,” could cost the county as much as $24 billion over the next 30 years — or an estimated $8.2 billion in value today.

The highway tax fund transfer would cost the county about $109 million this year and $82 million next year, according to staff estimates. Yaroslavsky called the potential taking of highway funds a “heist.”

Supervisor Gloria Molina suggested that political gamesmanship was at play in the state’s current proposal.

“I guess that they are waiting for us to file this lawsuit? Is that part of the game?” Molina asked, calling the state’s plan a “scheme.”

Supervisor Don Knabe said he thought that state officials hoped to trigger a “poison pill” as a result of a lawsuit by the county, which would allow the state to trigger a borrowing under 2004’s Proposition 1A and make the county “look like the bad guy.”

A borrowing under Prop. 1A would apparently allow the state to take local funds without representatives explicitly voting to do so.

The state’s potential moves to raid local funds to balance its budget are estimated to cost the county as much as $852.2 million. County officials stressed that the cuts would affect the county’s ability to deliver health, mental health, public safety and social services.

The proposals being considered in Sacramento would be on top of the $253.1 million the state cut from the county in February.

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, conceded that the local cuts are painful, but the state had little choice.

“If you cannot raise revenue, the only way you can close the deficit is to cut or do borrowing,” Bass said. “The borrowing that we did on the local level, and I know it was very painful, but the borrowing that we are doing is short-term borrowing and we’re going to do an accelerated repayment. The fact of the matter is, if we’re not able to raise revenue, those are our only two choices. And the cuts we’ve made so far are very devastating.”

Bass noted that without the cuts, the state likely would have had to eliminate programs such as CalWORKS, and “those hit the counties as well and those would have been permanent reductions, and so we really didn’t have any good choices.”

H.D. Palmer of the state Department of Finance confirmed that all of the cuts are on the table as legislators try to close the state’s budget gap.

“Those proposals are under consideration. We’re forced to consider any number of difficult proposals,” Palmer said.

Antonovich said Monday that the state should eliminate wasteful departments and unneeded positions before raiding local funds.

The Legislature is leaving Los Angeles County in a position similar to what happens “after the parade, when we’re left with a shovel to clean up after the horses,” Antonovich said.

The board’s vote was 4-0. Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas did not attend the meeting.

The state Legislature has yet to vote on the budget proposal reportedly hammered out Monday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state Senate and Assembly.

Reductions from county programs being considered include:

• $109 million in fiscal year 2009-10 and $82 million in fiscal year 2010-11 reductions of the county’s share of gasoline tax revenues.

• $53.3 million reduction of projected CalWORKs Single Allocation funds.

• $22.1 million loss from the elimination of funding for the Substance Abuse Crime Prevention Act (Prop. 36) funds.

• $21 million loss from the elimination of funds for the Mental Health Managed Care Program.

• $12.4 million loss from the deferral of AB 3632 Program payments.

• $7.1 million loss from the reduction of Drug Medi-Cal Program Rates.

• And $5.7 million loss from the reduction of HIV/AIDS Treatment and Prevention Program funds.

State leaders are also considering the suspension of Prop. 1A, which would allow the state to borrow $1.98 billion from local governments, said Sharon Harper, chief deputy of the county’s chief executive office.

If enacted, she said, at least $301.9 million in county general fund property tax revenues would be at risk.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa also lashed out at the proposed raiding of local funds.

“I think all of us are absolutely outraged that this Legislature, that Sacramento, has been unable to balance its budget to address the meltdown,” Villaraigosa told reporters.

He said the state could take nearly $300 million from the city’s already- strained coffers — including $120 million in gas tax revenue, $124 million in property tax revenue and $50 million in redevelopment funds.

Under Proposition 1A, if the state decides to borrow a portion of the city’s property tax revenues, it would have to pay the money back — with interest — over three years. However, the state is not obligated to reimburse the city for gas tax revenues.

“That is the kind of irresponsible legislating and budget decisions that I think all of us are outraged about,” Villaraigosa said.

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One week later on the very sad Anniversary of our Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...August 6, 1945.

Turn, turn, turn...Eccleisiastes.

turn, turn, turn - BYRDS

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THE SERENity Prayer...

I thank you, each and everyone one of you, for your kind support and prayers...Wayne.

I love you, Mom.. Wayne.

VOILA...:)

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