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Mickey Z
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the Department of Homeland Security.
Monday, March 05, 2007
"Breaking News" is a matter of perspective
Will someone please explain to me why today’s news stories mention nothing about my mother being very sick for the past few years? She’s currently undergoing treatment in Texas but all I can find in the search engines are stories about Anna Nicole’s baby, Britney’s shaved head, and the latest bit of doubletalk from some elected official or corporate CEO. Where are the headlines about my top story? My mom’s illness is big news but not one newspaper, website, or TV show is covering it. Why can’t anyone in the media appreciate how serious this is? Don’t they realize my mom is my best friend?
Mom:
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Walt Whitman sez:
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men—go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers or families—re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body."
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