THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE..?

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You have them.

I'll entertain them.

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Sally Ride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sally Ride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, Ride joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have travelled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the space shuttle Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primarily researching non-linear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, the only person to participate on both.

Ride was one of 8,000 people who answered an advertisement in the Stanford student newspaper seeking applicants for the space program. She was chosen to join NASA in 1978. During her career, Ride served as the ground-based capsule communicator (CapCom) for the second and third space shuttle flights (STS-2 and STS-3) and helped develop the space shuttle's robot arm.

Prior to her first space flight, she was subject to media attention due to her gender. During a press conference, she was asked questions like, "Will the flight affect your reproductive organs?" and "Do you weep when things go wrong on the job?" Despite this and the historical significance of the mission, Ride insisted that she saw herself in only one way—as an astronaut. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space as a crew member on space shuttle Challenger for STS-7. She was preceded by two Soviet women, Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.

Her second space flight was in 1984, also on board the Challenger. She spent a total of more than 343 hours in space. Ride, who had completed eight months of training for her third flight (STS-61-M, a TDRS deployment mission) when the space shuttle Challenger disaster occurred, was named to the Rogers Commission (the presidential commission investigating the accident) and headed its subcommittee on operations.

According to Roger Boisjoly, the engineer who warned of the technical problems that led to the Challenger disaster, Ride was the only public figure to show support for him when he went public with his pre-disaster warnings (after the entire workforce of Morton-Thiokol shunned him). Sally Ride hugged him publicly to show her support for his efforts.

Ride died on July 23, 2012, at the age of 61, seventeen months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

After death, her obituary revealed that Ride's partner of 27 years was Tam O'Shaughnessy, a professor emerita of school psychology at San Diego State University and childhood friend, who met Ride when both were aspiring tennis players.

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SALLY KRISTEN RIDE

~(One Pearl? Total Pig? Anti-Christ?)~

Ride is the first known LGBT astronaut.

The elder child of Dale Burdell Ride and Carol Joyce (née Anderson), Ride was born in Los Angeles, California. She had one sibling, Karen "Bear" Ride, who is a Presbyterian minister. Both parents were elders in the Presbyterian Church. Ride's mother had worked as a volunteer counselor at a women's correctional facility. Her father had been a political science professor at Santa Monica College.

Following cremation, her ashes were interred next to her father at Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, California.

PACMAN!

For some reason this Instagram made me think of a picture just recently came across while surfing the Internets.  

How a Missouri 'pothead' became poster boy for compassion on drugs - CSMonitor.com

How a Missouri 'pothead' became poster boy for compassion on drugs - CSMonitor.com: ATLANTA — Back in the day, Jeff Mizanskey was a bit of a pothead, at least that’s how the police in Sedalia, Mo., knew him. The third time Mr. Mizanskey got busted for weed – during a 1993 sting at a Super 8 motel – he lost his case at trial and received a mind-boggling punishment: Life in prison, with no chance of getting out.



In Georgia, Gov. Nathan Deal signed a limited medical marijuana bill that would allow people with a specific set of ailments to receive non-psychoactive marijuana oil. Gov. Deal has also led a major criminal justice reform system aimed at giving judges more leeway to allow nonviolent drug offenders to get treatment rather than automatically send them to jail.



And in a widely circulated column in the Dallas Morning News, Republican state representative David Simpson recently used Scripture to argue for prohibition repeal in the Lone Star State.



“Should we be concerned for our friends and neighbors who abuse a substance or activity?” Mr. Simpson wrote. “Yes, we should help them through sincere and voluntary engagement, but not with force and violence.”



To be sure, Mizanskey, to some, remains a hazard to society, who deserves to die behind bars. For one, Jeff Mittelhauser, who prosecuted the case, told the Riverfront Times he didn’t think the sentence was too excessive.



About 80 percent of the 3,200 nonviolent offenders serving life sentences in the US are in prison on drug offenses, and 27 percent of all prisoners in the US are behind bars for marijuana offenses, according to an ACLU report. The US Sentencing Commission has reported that convicted drug traffickers spend an average of 34 months in prison.



“While prohibitionists like to claim that advocates only care about getting high or are all about making money with a new industry, the case of Jeff Mizanskey demonstrates … the compassion at the heart of our fight,” writes legalization advocate Anthony Johnson on marijuanapolitics.com



Mizanskey’s case had been largely forgotten except by his family when the Riverfront Times in 2013 did a long story about the construction worker, detailing his recreational use of marijuana and his occasional small-time sales to support his own habit.



That attitude shift has begun to dovetail with strained prison budgets to force the issue in front of governors and lawmakers.

Tanya Smith, medical amnesty laws: States are saving the lives of drug users.

Tanya Smith, medical amnesty laws: States are saving the lives of drug users.: Last August authorities found the body of Georgia police officer Tanya Smith’s 20-year-old daughter, Taylor, dead of a drug overdose. On the night of her death, Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia. When Taylor began struggling to breathe, her companions feared that calling 911 might summon the police. They tried to revive her themselves by throwing her in a cold shower. When Taylor died, they dumped her body in a roadside ditch near a trailer and fled. It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.

After her daughter’s death, Smith fought hard to pass a new law to address situations like this, in which scared witnesses don’t call for help because of the specter of drugs. The resulting 911 Medical Amnesty Law, which Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed last month, encourages people to seek help for an overdose by granting limited immunity from some drug charges.

The argument against medical amnesty laws is that they protect drug dealers from prosecution and prevent police officers from enforcing drug laws. But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook. By limiting the quantity of drugs you can get immunity for, all 15 states with these laws have excluded dealers from protection. For example, in Georgia, a person can be charged with drug trafficking if he possesses 4 or more grams of heroin or 28 or more grams of cocaine. The new medical amnesty law only protects a person who possesses less than 4 grams of any solid narcotic. In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts. In Florida, law enforcement even spearheaded the campaign for medical amnesty in 2012. Detective Gary Martin of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office explains, “When most people witness an overdose, they’ll try all kinds of bizarre, dangerous ways to revive a person based off things they see on TV. We want them to call 911.”

Georgia’s new law also expands access to naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an overdose. (It works like the EpiPen.) Paramedics have used naloxone for decades; now the idea is to put it in the hands of laypeople by shielding them from civil liability if they give naloxone to an overdose victim and something goes wrong. (That’s rare.) Thanks in part to liability protections in 911 medical amnesty laws, more than 10,000 laypeople across the country have now used it to reverse overdoses.

A year before Tanya Smith’s daughter died, naloxone saved her from a heroin overdose.  

(Naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.)

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The section that stands out to me:

{The argument against medical amnesty laws is that they protect drug dealers from prosecution and prevent police officers from enforcing drug laws. But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook. By limiting the quantity of drugs you can get immunity for, all 15 states with these laws have excluded dealers from protection.}

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{The new medical amnesty law only protects a person who possesses less than 4 grams of any solid narcotic.}

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{In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.}

A year before Tanya Smith’s daughter died,
 (naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.)
 naloxone saved her from a heroin overdose.  

 On the night of her death, 
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 
Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia.

When Taylor began struggling to breathe,
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 
her companions feared that calling 911 might summon the police.

Last August authorities found the body of Georgia police officer Tanya Smith’s 20-year-old daughter, 
Taylor,
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 
 dead of a drug overdose.

When Taylor began struggling to breathe, 
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 
her companions feared that calling 911 might summon the police.

 On the night of her death, 
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 
Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia.

A year before Tanya Smith’s daughter died,
 (naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.)
 naloxone saved her from a heroin overdose.  


It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.  
(naloxone does not reverse the effects of methamphetamine.) 

A Second Chance

A new kind of medical amnesty law is saving the lives of drug users.

After her daughter’s death, Smith fought hard to pass a new law to address situations like this, 
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
in which scared witnesses don’t call for help because of the specter of drugs. 

The resulting 911 Medical Amnesty Law, which Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed last month, 
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
encourages people to seek help for an overdose by granting limited immunity from some drug charges.

The argument against medical amnesty laws is that they protect drug dealers from prosecution and prevent 
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
police officers from enforcing drug laws.  

 By limiting the quantity of drugs you can get immunity for, 
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
all 15 states with these laws have excluded dealers from protection. 

Last August authorities found the body of Georgia police officer Tanya Smith’s 20-year-old daughter, 
Taylor, 
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
dead of a drug overdose.

When Taylor began struggling to breathe,
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
her companions feared that calling 911 might summon the police.

 On the night of her death, 

(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)
Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia.

It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.
(But medical amnesty does not let dealers off the hook.)

A Second Chance

A new kind of medical amnesty law is saving the lives of drug users.

The argument against medical amnesty laws is that they protect drug dealers from prosecution 
(In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.)
and prevent police officers from enforcing drug laws.  

By limiting the quantity of drugs you can get immunity for, 
(In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.)
all 15 states with these laws have excluded dealers from protection.

On the night of her death, 
(In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.)
Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia.

Last August authorities found the body of Georgia police officer Tanya Smith’s 20-year-old daughter, 
Taylor, 
(In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.)
dead of a drug overdose.

It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.
(In every state to pass these laws, powerful sheriff and police chief associations have supported the efforts.)

A Second Chance

A new kind of medical amnesty law is saving the lives of drug users.

Nor is methamphetamine a solid narcotic.
(It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.)
The new medical amnesty law only protects a person who possesses less than 4 grams of any solid narcotic.

Last August authorities found the body of Georgia police officer Tanya Smith’s 20-year-old daughter, 
Taylor, 
(It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.)
dead of a drug overdose.

On the night of her death, 
It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.
Taylor and a few friends smoked methamphetamine in an apartment in Jasper, Georgia.



When Taylor began struggling to breathe,
(It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.)
her companions feared that calling 911 might summon the police.

When Taylor died, 
(It was a terrible end to Taylor’s two-year battle with drug addiction.)
they dumped her body in a roadside ditch near a trailer and fled. 

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DRUG DEALERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!

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GLENN MEMORIAL 

UNITED(?)METHODIST(?)CHURCH

Upcoming Events

Overdose Awareness and Prevention Night

May 31, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Ward Hall

All youth and parents are invited to this program.
Drug overdoses have overtaken automobile accidents as the leading cause of
 ?accidental? 
death in the United States.
Georgia Overdose Prevention, a group of parents, health care professionals and friends who have been personally affected by drug addiction and overdose will discuss their experiences with the loss of their loved one, the new GA Medical Amnesty Law, recovery and hope. Dinner is provided.

REALITY

IS A 

CREATION 

OF OUR 

EXCESSES.
~(EMIL CIORAN)~

CHANGED MY MIND!

LUMP PREACHERS IN WITH THEM...

MOST ESPECIALLY 

G. ROBERT GARY, SR. ThD,

THEN DRUG DEALERS ARE THE 

PROBLEMS.

Bob Gary Th.D, Member AAPC Specialties: Individuals, Couples, Families, Groups, Church/Organizational Consultant, Pastoral Consultant, Clergy Sexual Abuse, Grief, Transitions, Depression Contact Information: 404-636-1457 ext. 425 bgary@cccgeorgia.org Counseling Centers: CCCG Main Office – Decatur (Decatur, GA)

HOW DOES ONE SELL A DRUG TO AN

 AUDIENCE THAT HAS ALREADY BOUGHT 

IT..?

CAIN IN THE UNITED STATES

Did life not begin the day we all be 
"CAIN" 
witness to death however briefly 
"ABEL" 
a witness to life..?

ISIS controls 'everything' in ancient city of Palmyra - CNN.com

"The world does not care about us.  

All they are interested in is the stones of ancient Palmyra."

~(26-Year-Old Palmyra Resident)~

But Palmyra,

which is also known as Tadmur, isn't just a matter of history. Today, it's also home to tens of thousands of people -- many of whom, if they haven't already fled, cower in fear they'll meet the same grisly fate of so many others conquered by ISIS.

 

They're people like the 26-year-old who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. He's huddled in a house with 50 people, among them his family members and neighbors who have lost their own homes, and worried that food will run out while his city is under curfew. 

 

After at least 100 Syrian soldiers died in fighting overnight, Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes Thursday in and around Palmyra, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. But there's no indication when, or if, Syrian ground forces will try to take back the city. Nor is there a sense that any of the others fighting ISIS, like the United States, will come to the rescue.

 



 

"They are everywhere."

~(26-Year-Old Palmyra Resident)~

 

ISIS controls 'everything' in ancient city of Palmyra - CNN.com:  That is the stark observation about ISIS fighters in Palmyra from a 26-year-old resident there, detailing the terrorist group's swift, destructive takeover of yet another city in its quest to brutally expand its caliphate.

 

This capture threatens a UNESCO World Heritage Site described as having "stood at the crossroads of several civilizations," with its art and architecture mixing Greek, Roman and Persian influences, according to that U.N. group. U.N. and Syrian officials have expressed fears that ISIS plans to destroy the ruins, just as it flattened the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud and smashed statues in Iraq's Mosul Museum.

 

 

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I inverted the order of these two sections trying to make a point. 

 

Calling upon me the multitudes, maybe the followings will help..?

 

"THOSE WITH A SURPLUS ARE BETTER ABLE CONTROLLING THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES.  THOSE WITHOUT ARE CONTROLED BY THEM.  ONE IS NOT ALWAYS "ABEL" EXERCISING GOOD JUDGEMENT."

~(6!9)~

 

Not one hundred percent sure  Henry Ford is the one I've just quoted above.  However, not important as I have altered one word I'm believing better explains the world of my understanding as seen from an

(ad)vantage point

currently been ...fortunate(?)privileged(?)givened(?)spoiled...leisurely enabled

to enjoy..? 

 

In other words,  you are going to need me explaining this to you in person; me needing to know more about you being just as important as you knowing more about me. This is known as pragmatic competence; the ability understanding another's language, of which, history and context plays an important role.

 

indeteminacy:

 

In any natural language, the instability of meaning, the uncertainty of reference, and the variations in interpretations of grammatical forms and categories.

 

As David A. Swinney has observed, "Indeterminacy exists at essentially every descriptive level of word, sentence, and discourse analysis"

(Understanding Word and Sentence, 1991).

And  any form of manipulation and deception, inopportunity, explaining myself

can easily tells me just as much, if not more, about you..?

 

 

"You don't know me!"

 

 

Of course,

 

"That's just your opinion!"

 

without all the evidence, these conclusions of mine will correctly be dismissed as conjectures.

 

"I'm not going to hear it!"

 

And there will be nothing I can do or say about it..?

 

 

Jesus Predicts His Death

(HE SPOKE PLAINLY ABOUT THIS)

 

MARK 8:

31He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

33But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

 

The Way of the Cross

 

34Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.35For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.36What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?37Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?38If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

 

 

 

 “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”

~(MARK 9:!)~