Paul Harvey says..........

[THE KOD]

Paul Harvey Writes:

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.

I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.

I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.

And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.

It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.

I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room,but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.

When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.

I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.

On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.

I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.

When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.

I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy\girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.

May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.

I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.

I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.

May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.

I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.

These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
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Inmates' menu critique: Too light, send it back

By CARLOS CAMPOS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 04/15/07

There's only so much prison inmates can take. Messin' with their cheese grits crosses the line.

A recent attempt by the state prison system to make its food healthier has been temporarily rebuffed by inmates ? some of whom rebelled against lower-fat, lower-sodium, reduced-calorie meals.

Officials say they're not trying to make prison more pleasing; they're trying to lower medical costs.

The Department of Corrections, in an attempt to hang on to $1.6 million in annual federal nutrition funds, rolled out the new meals on March 7.

The department cut back on portion sizes. Men's meals were cut back by about 130 calories to 2,900; women's by 250 to 2,200, officials said. Two-thirds cup of creamed beef, two biscuits, an orange and cheese grits at breakfast became one-half cup of creamed beef, one biscuit, an orange and grits ? with no cheese, or powdered cheese sauce instead of the real thing. Meat and vegetable servings also were reduced.

The change didn't go over well with the inmates, and they complained to guards and wardens. Twenty days later, the old menus were back, though prison officials insist the new meals will make a return by summer.

It might be hard to muster sympathy for felons' cuisine. But there is something at stake for taxpayers: The prison system spends $163 million a year on inmate health care, including some with chronic illnesses related to lifestyle choices.

"You're striving for a healthier inmate," said Michael Nail, deputy director of the corrections division of the Department of Corrections. "What that gets you is lower medical costs."

Correctional experts also say there's a correlation between dissatisfaction with prison food and inmate behavior. Food was the primary cause of at least 42 prison riots in the United States in the 21st century, an author of a book on prison violence said. Food played at least a secondary role in almost all of the 1,334 riots they studied from 1900-1995, he said. Last month, three inmates in a Guatemalan prison were killed in a riot sparked by complaints about prison food and a lack of drinking water.

"It's amazing what becomes important when you're locked up," said Gordon A. Crews, co-author of "A History of Correctional Violence: An Examination of Reported Causes of Riots and Disturbances." "There's so much stuff we take for granted."

Crews, a professor of criminal justice at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., also said many inmates live unhealthy lifestyles outside of prison and are accustomed to cheap junk and fast food. A healthy diet can be a major shock to the system.

"Think about if, all of a sudden, they cut out all the caffeine, sugar and salt," Crews said. "You could argue coming off those things is like coming off heroin."

Inmates are beset with health problems such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and other ailments linked to poor diet and lack of exercise, prison officials say.

But the prison system isn't restricting commissary purchases, where inmates can stock up on sugar-laden and salty snacks. In 2005, commissary sales topped $22 million. Inmates spent $644,394 just on honey buns, the most popular sweet snack in the commissaries. Another $327,972 went to Little Debbie Oatmeal Pies and Nutty Bar snacks. High-sodium soups, calorie-laden sodas, bacon cheddar crackers and nacho cheese chips are also among the most popular sellers, according to Department of Corrections sales figures. The prison system gets a 15 percent cut of commissary money, and the rest goes to an inmate benefit fund for things such as televisions, magazine and newspaper subscriptions and recreational equipment.

The prison system gets $1.6 million a year through the federal government's school lunch program because it houses more than 1,100 eligible inmates 20 and under, some of whom attend GED classes. The federal government issued new nutritional guidelines last year, and the department needed to comply in order to keep getting the money, said Norman Wilson, manager of food and farm services for the Department of Corrections.

Prison officials insist the inmates' revolt against the new menus was peaceful, though rumors have swirled among prisoner families and friends of disturbances. Nail said most of the complaints came from two prisons, Georgia State Prison in Reidsville and Washington State Prison in Davisboro. Nail couldn't say why complaints bubbled up in those two institutions, though he noted the high security level at both.

At Metro State Prison in southeast Atlanta on a recent weekday afternoon, inmates dined on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread, a scoop of chilled fruit salad and a few pieces of lettuce bathed in dressing.

Inmate Teresa Fargason said it seemed to her the prison system cut portions back last year. Fargason said the three meals a day do not fill her up, and she relies on her store purchases to compensate.

"I've been incarcerated 14 years, you just kind of learn to roll with the punches," said Fargason, serving a life sentence for murder.

While she's taken the changes in relatively good humor, there's one thing she can't stomach. The grits casserole that sometimes replaces the cheese grits.

"It was just kind of bland and looked like someone had been sick," she said of the union of eggs, cheese, onions, ground beef and grits.

Otherwise, she's glad to have healthier options, Fargason said.

Nail and other prison officials insist the changes to the menu are not intended to punish inmates. He believes some of the resistance is natural, particularly in an environment as highly regimented as prison.

"I think it's really just about the change," said Nail. "I think we need to give them time to acclimate to change."

Some inmate relatives aren't buying it, though. They believe the menu changes are just cost-cutting measures and believe inmates who lack loved ones on the oustide to send them money for commissary purchases are going hungry.

Sharon Bragg of Lilburn sends money to her son, who is serving a life sentence for murder. Her son uses the money to supplement his diet with commissary goods. Bragg's son told her the food has been cut to "elementary school" portions.

Bragg worries inmates who can't buy commissary goods will pressure those with snacks to share ? willingly or otherwise.

"It causes other guys that are hungry ... to want to either steal the inmates' food or make them feel like they have to share with them," said Bragg.

Metro State Prison inmate Bianca Miller, also serving a life sentence for murder, said it's not unusual for people to barter snacks for favors, such as doing someone's laundry or cleaning their cell.

Miller said she liked the new, healthier menus, but also said it's hard to get full from only chow hall food.

The Department of Corrections will be discussing the menu changes at a regular inmate family members' meeting on April 20 in Milledgeville at the Arnall Building, Central State Hospital, from 9 a.m. to noon. The prison system hopes to inform people about the changes, which it must implement by June in order to hang onto the federal money.


WHAT'S IN OR OUT on prison menus now that the state prison system is trying to make healthy changes in inmates' diets:


WHAT'S OUT

? Chili dogs

? Cheese grits

? Two biscuits at breakfast

? Sweetened cereals

? Snack cakes

WHAT'S IN

? Wrap sandwiches using tortillas

? Grits with no cheese or powdered cheese

? One biscuit at breakfast

? Vegetable scramble

? Hearty bean soup



Here's what's still available for purchase in commissaries, which have not been affected by the changes.


Top snacks in prison commissaries (amount of 2005 sales)

?Honey buns ($644,394)

?Ramen chili soup ($549,157)

?Bacon cheddar crackers ($198,481)

?Beef & cheese stick ($185,071)

?Little Debbie Oatmeal pies ($173,501)


Source: Georgia Department of Corrections
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Seems to me that you could control the prisons by taking away their honey buns.:scared

 

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[vinnie]

 

[THE KOD]

Vinnie

This is a Paul Harvey thread.

Why post some picture of a dog wearing a NASA shuttle.

wtf

:shrug:

 

[THE KOD]

There are some people in the politics form that have their heads so far up their ass they cannot see straight.

 

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[smurphy]

Is Paul Harvey considered poitical?

 

[bjfinste]

Vinnie

This is a Paul Harvey thread.

Why post some picture of a dog wearing a NASA shuttle.

wtf

:shrug:

This may be my favorite post of the year.

 

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This may be my favorite post of the year.

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bjfinste

you always get my jokes.

I do love them oxymoron thingees.

Especially the moron part seems to suit me.

 

[THE KOD]

Is Paul Harvey considered poitical?

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I think he is just considered old.

 

[smurphy]

how old is he? i'm actually very surprised he's still woprking.

 

[THE KOD]

Paul Harvey Aurandt (born September 4, 1918), better known as Paul Harvey, is an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcasts News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. His listening audience is estimated at 22 million people a week. Harvey likes to say he was raised in radio newsrooms.

The most noticeable features of Harvey's idiosyncratic delivery are his dramatic pauses, quirky intonations and his folksiness. A large part of his success stems from the seamlessness with which he segues from his monologue into reading commercial messages. He explains his enthusiastic support of his sponsors as such: "I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is."
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Paul Harvey ............Goooooood Day !

hope I am able to work when I am 89l
making money with your voice must be a wonderful thing. Everyone has to talk sometime.

 

[djv]

So that old fart still kicking. I thought they put him to rest 3 years ago. I must have had wrong guy. Good old he tried to be independent Paul. He was the first of the radio shows that we now have to many of. He visited our town about 25 years ago. I think he was 70 then. A Small crowd of 3000 went to see him. That was a sell out for our town. I know I was there with my grand parents who listen to Paul ever day at noon sharp. I took them for their 60th wedding anniversary present.
I believe Paul shook hands with every couple there married 50 years or more. And there were a lot.
Was a nice gesture. My grandaddy a hard core conservative. I don't think he washed his hand for two days. Just Joking.

 

[THE KOD]

djv

I agree and would say that Paul Harvey is a
good honest and caring man.

 

[THE KOD]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- How do you get rid of the body of a dead astronaut on a three-year mission to Mars and back?

When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endangering the rest of the crew? Should NASA employ DNA testing to weed out astronauts who might get a disease on a long flight?

With NASA planning to land on Mars 30 years from now, and with the recent discovery of the most "Earth-like" planet ever seen outside the solar system, the space agency has begun to ponder some of the thorny practical and ethical questions posed by deep space exploration.

Some of these who-gets-thrown-from-the-lifeboat questions are outlined in a NASA document on crew health obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request.

NASA doctors and scientists, with help from outside bioethicists and medical experts, hope to answer many of these questions over the next several years.

"As you can imagine, it's a thing that people aren't really comfortable talking about," said Dr. Richard Williams, NASA's chief health and medical officer. "We're trying to develop the ethical framework to equip commanders and mission managers to make some of those difficult decisions should they arrive in the future."

One topic that is evidently too hot to handle: How do you cope with sexual desire among healthy young men and women during a mission years long?

Sex is not mentioned in the document and has long been almost a taboo topic at NASA. Williams said the question of sex in space is not a matter of crew health but a behavioral issue that will have to be taken up by others at NASA.

The agency will have to address the matter sooner or later, said Paul Root Wolpe, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania who has advised NASA since 2001.

"There is a decision that is going to have to be made about mixed-sex crews, and there is going to be a lot of debate about it," he said.

The document does spell out some health policies in detail, such as how much radiation astronauts can be exposed to from space travel (No more radiation than the amount that would increase the risk of cancer by 3 percent over the astronaut's career) and the number of hours crew members should work each week (No more than 48 hours).

But on other topics -- such as steps for disposing of the dead and cutting off an astronaut's medical care if he or she cannot survive -- the document merely says these are issues for which NASA needs a policy.

"There may come a time in which a significant risk of death has to be weighed against mission success," Wolpe said. "The idea that we will always choose a person's well-being over mission success, it sounds good, but it doesn't really turn out to be necessarily the way decisions always will be made."

For now, astronauts and cosmonauts who become critically sick or injured at the international space station -- something that has never happened -- can leave the orbiting outpost 220 miles above Earth and return home within hours aboard a Russian Soyuz space vehicle.

That wouldn't be possible if a life-and-death situation were to arise on a voyage to Mars, where the nearest hospital is millions of miles away.

Moreover, Mars-bound astronauts will not always be able to rely on instructions from Mission Control, since it would take nearly a half-hour for a question to be asked and an answer to come back via radio.

Astronauts going to the moon and Mars for long periods of time must contend with the basic health risks from space travel, multiplied many times over: radiation, the loss of muscle and bone, and the psychological challenges of isolation.

NASA will consider whether astronauts must undergo preventive surgery, such as an appendectomy, to head off medical emergencies during a mission, and whether astronauts should be required to sign living wills with end-of-life instructions.

The space agency also must decide whether to set age restrictions on the crew, and whether astronauts of reproductive age should be required to bank sperm or eggs because of the risk of genetic mutations from radiation exposure during long trips.

Already, NASA is considering genetic screening in choosing crews on the long-duration missions. That is now prohibited.

"Genetic screening must be approached with caution ... because of limiting employment and career opportunities based on use of genetic information," Williams said.

NASA's three major tragedies resulting in 17 deaths -- Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia -- were caused by technical rather than medical problems. NASA never has had to abort a mission because of health problems, though the Soviet Union had three such episodes.

Some believe the U.S. space agency has not adequately prepared for the possibility of death during a mission.

"I don't think they've been great at dealing with this type of thing in the past," said former astronaut Story Musgrave, a six-time space shuttle flier who has a medical degree. "But it's very nice that they're considering it now."
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[smurphy]

WHAT THE FUK?

PLEASE USE A DIFFERENT FORUM FOR THIS SENILE-DRIVEN ABSURDITY.

ASTRONAUT MEDICARE????