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721 David Lynch revisited -- rank: 1000

I met David once when he was researching effects for Dune. He liked very much the work I had done using an electron microscope though it did not get used in the film. Those were in my film days - long past. But here is a take on Lynch's use of the disabled body. Warning it is long and it is postmodern..... http://www.cds.hawaii.edu/dsq/issues/2002/winter/html/01_body.htm -- -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA www.disweb.org

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Mar 10 14:16:00 PST 2002

722 Uninsured man not even put on transplant waiting lists -- rank: 1000

> > >Badger Care [Wisconsin's Medicaid] entitled Resler to medical care >but the care, he says, was both minimal and impersonal. The first >doctor he saw took one look at him, heard his symptoms and told him >he had jaundice and heartburn. The doctor prescribed a no salt, >protein-loaded diet for the former and Zantac for the latter. >Neither helped. > So many people think Medicaid is a social safety net. It isn't when hardly any docs will take it, the ones who do are ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Mar 9 11:40:41 PST 2002

723 more rollback of ADA -- rank: 1000

>At 09:35 AM 6/18/2002 -0700, Marta wrote: > >>Now imagine if you were arrested and there was no back seat in the >>patrol car so the police put you on top of the car and strapped you >>on with your own belt and while driving to the station you fell off >>the car, injured yourself and had to have surgery. Would you want >>the police to do this to the next victim they arrested? > > >No I would not. An ideally, I would like to see these officers > ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 18 14:11:03 PDT 2002

724 more rollback of ADA -- rank: 1000

>Wojteck wrote > >This implies some sort of an objective standard ("natural law") >against which "human laws" are judged. It comes dangerously close >to the Catholic doctrine and, ironically, neoliberalism. This is an >intellectually appealing position, because it establishes a uniform >set of criteria to evaluate laws and public agencies that promulgate >or enforce them, but unfortunately defining this set of criteria is >a bit of a problem. For ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 18 09:35:55 PDT 2002

725 more rollback of ADA -- rank: 1000

>At 01:06 PM 6/17/2002 -0700, you wrote: >>Posted on Mon, Jun. 17, 2002 >> >>Court Rules on Disabilities Law >>GINA HOLLAND >>Associated Press Writer >> >>Government agencies can be forced to pay actual damages but not >>punitive damages for >>violating a landmark disabilities law, the court ruled. > > >Why is punitive damages paid by government agencies a good thing? >It is invariably a transfer of public tax monies to private ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jun 17 16:51:08 PDT 2002

726 workfare -- rank: 1000

>Reuters Company News >FEATURE-Firms look to welfare rolls as labor shortage looms > >By Karen Jacobs > >ATLANTA, June 11 (Reuters) - Emory Bent says a job helped turn his >life around. > >Bent, 37, had been homeless, jobless and struggling with drugs >before getting a job at Home Depot Inc. (NYSE:HD - News) in New York >about three years ago. Last month, the former welfare recipient >graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Bent >now ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jun 15 09:54:46 PDT 2002

727 McMedicine -- rank: 1000

Joanna wrote: > >Right on Marta! And this problem will get way worse. I find it hard >to believe that, with the population aging, and needing more care, >they're going to keep going in this obscene direction. I mean, older >people vote! It is amazing to me that seniors accept the Medicare plan without challenging the fact that they must buy a private insurance policy to cover what Medicare does not cover -- prescription drugs being only one item. This has been going on for years. ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 13 13:42:38 PDT 2002

728 McMedicine -- rank: 1000

Copyright is mine to post. What I failed to suggest is that doctors need to lobby to get paid better rather than just refusing to see Medicare patients. Since everyone will age and need Medicare this should be of interest to all. marta Sustainers PLEASE note: --> Sustainers can change your email address or cc data or temporarily turn off mail delivery via: https://www.zmag.org/sustainers/members --> If you pass this comment along to others -- periodically but not repeatedly -- please expl ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 12 13:30:07 PDT 2002

729 Protest against Singer's views -- rank: 1000

> > >The list archives are not as searchable through google as they once >were. Why should someone else be called lazy, and not you for >refusing to defend your own claims? > >kelley > All this started as a result of my posting a simple announcement of a demonstration. They were not my claims, but the Singer quotes are accurate ones and they have been around for years and years --all over the place in the corporate press and elsewhere from the book "Should the Baby ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 6 13:37:31 PDT 2002

730 Singer's views -- rank: 1000

> >well, fortunately for all of us, that seems unlikely. i'm not the >utilitarian or consequentialist that singer is, but all of us, >singer, luke, myself, and you, agree very much that we are talking >about real lives. i'm trying to discern an argument in your response >and can only seem to find red herrings and reprobation. >j All of this will have to wait. I've scheduled time to have a zip disc installed in my computer for back up in case my system crashes and today is t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 6 13:21:47 PDT 2002

731 Protest against Singer's views -- rank: 1000

>On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 at 10:24am Marta Russell wrote: >> > > I had some trouble on that site. Here is another: >> http://thalidomide.ca/gwolbring/ > > >yeah, i had some 'problems' with the site too... in fact, i >don't know too many leftists that put much stock in >newsmax.com, _First Things_, or Michael Savage. I did not claim this was a "leftist" site -- only a place to find Peter Singer references and perhaps the quotes with page numbers Michael ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 6 11:03:46 PDT 2002

732 Singer's views -- rank: 1000

>On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 03:01 PM, Luke Weiger wrote: > >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Marta Russell" <ap888 at lafn.org> >>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >>Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:53 AM >>Subject: Re: Singer's views >> >>>NO he doesn't. His line is drawn much earlier - This has already >>>been posted on LBO in the past so I'm not going to take the time to >>>look it up ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 6 10:47:10 PDT 2002

733 Protest against Singer's views -- rank: 1000

>On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Marta Russell posted > >> A CALL TO ACTION > >Marta, just in case I ever want to cite these quotes, do you know where I >might find page references for them? > >Michael Michael, Gregor Wolbring has lots of Singer's writing, speeches, etc. at http://bioethicsanddisability.org/singer.html Marta I had some trouble on that site. Here is another: http://thalidomide.ca/gwolbring/ marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 6 10:24:24 PDT 2002

734 Protest against Singer's views -- rank: 1000

>On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Marta Russell posted > >> A CALL TO ACTION > >Marta, just in case I ever want to cite these quotes, do you know where I >might find page references for them? > >Michael Michael, Gregor Wolbring has lots of Singer's writing, speeches, etc. at http://bioethicsanddisability.org/singer.html Marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 6 10:18:39 PDT 2002

735 Singer's views -- rank: 1000

>>>Yes, that's part of why the abortion issue is so hard, >>>philosophically. But Marta's is a slippery slope argument. First >>>they came for the newborns, and I didn't speak up . . . . That >>>doesn't depend on denying that newborns aren't persons because they >>>lack a conception of--the future, isn't it, in Singer? not the self. >>>Personally I don't think they are coming for the newborns, so it's >>>mere philosophy to say that t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 6 10:08:27 PDT 2002