what can your Representative do for you?

most of you know that i am "mobility impaired" which means i fall, a lot. Ranger is my service animal and goes everywhere with me... i mean everywhere. the only time he's not with me is when he goes to the vet for his weekly bath, or when he goes to relieve himself.

august of 2009 i took my youngest grandson for his 2 month checkup and shots. 15 minutes in the waiting room and a woman walked out of the office and told me i had to get my dog out of the room.  without going into details about the whole incident... i explained Ranger's job and advised her to go to the ADA website and see the guidelines concerning Service Animals. she returned, told me i had to leave or she would call the police and have me arrested... i told her to put it in writing.

i filed a complaint with the DoJ in september 2009. website said it would be reviewed in 3 to 6 months. i called in january 2010, "no, it hasn't been reviewed yet"... i called in february, still  "no"... i kept calling the DoJ, kept getting "not yet, but soon"

i called in may 2009.... same answer. i called the office of the 2nd District of Mississippi Representative Bennie Thompson on a monday... that wednesday i got a call from the DoJ telling me that since it was dealing with a health clinic that received federal funding my case would be handed over the the DHHS.

and i waited... and waited for DHHS to get in touch with me... for 5 months ... i called about every 2 weeks, but could never get anything other than a recording. i left messages, i wrote... no response from the DHHS atlanta office.

then i called my Representative again.. on a tuesday... 2 days later i received a call telling me that i would receive a registered letter and i should have everything returned 20 days from the day the letter was typed. 

i did.. hoping that things will move swiftly... but, if they don't... i know who to call to make things happen.

yes, i will be voting for Bennie Thompson every time he runs for re-election.

sentient beings... thumbs, speech, and other Divine gifts

humans .... created by the Divine? ... i do believe that to be true ... but, special? only in the way we term 'special education' ... i mean, come'on ... we are the least cognizant creatures on this planet ... we never learn by observation ... for if we did, there would never have been a need to write in the old testament and other ancient sources, about personal hygiene, cooking procedures, etc ...

day'umn ... even puppies know not to defecate where you eat and sleep ... humans? another story altogether.

we have speech, thumbs, and all other lil goodies that should make us the most enhanced beings on the planet ... but we cannot keep the most rudimentary survival skills, that are inherent in other species, yet must be deliberately pounded into each generation of the 'higher' life-forms on this rock.

now? humans have devolved to such a degree that nurturing skills must be taught ... and history? is a lesson never learned. 

“Who is conceited enough to imagine that he can actually devise ideal institutions? The only people who think they can are those who believe that nothing significant was ever done before their own time, that their generation will be the first to achieve anything worthwhile, people who are convinced that only they and their current idols possess the truth, and that anyone who doesn’t agree with them is a fool or a knave….it’s a universal law — intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”

~~Alexander Solzhenitsyn, August 1914

quote taken from fb friend bill shears ... it showed on his timeline yday ... and i felt a need to spew about it
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