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  • Thundermist

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 4
    A fine video documentary by Scott Kingsley and/or David DelP about Thundermist Health Associates. It was my first job in 1991. How they’ve grown. [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:24pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Good Save

    Kmareka.com

    If I ever have to call a doctor in the middle of the night, I hope I talk to one like Dena Rifkin. Forgive me for quoting the NYT at length, but this is what real practice of medicine should be… The voice on the phone was authoritative, even brusque. A [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:39pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Applying the ACORN Standard to Republicans

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    Number of comments: 3
    I’ve been kind of scared off this topic, because when the Tea Party folks talk about ACORN, they pronounce it AAACORRRNN, as if their head is going to spin around backwards like Linda Blair in The Exorcist. So you don’t dare ask what is really so awful about ACORN. My general [...]
    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:08pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Purple Priestly Prose in the ProJo

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    Number of comments: 5
    I usually keep it clean on Kmareka, the standard being to write nothing that Kiersten would be embarrassed to have her kids read. I take it as a challenge to try to convey my dislike of some people by neither suggesting they do things to themselves that are physically impossible, [...]
    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:53pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Claiming Victory

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    Number of comments: 1
    In today’s ProJo there’s a letter by Prof. Laura Lederer, congratulating the Journal for supporting the law criminalizing prostitution. She sees this as a step to fighting sex-trafficking. Depriving anyone of their freedom is a human rights violation, and forced prostitution is an atrocious crime. But so far, we have [...]
    Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:04pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Attack of the Blob

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    Number of comments: 1
    It’s been said that the Earth will do just fine, no matter what imbalances the six billion of us inflict on her. The Earth will adjust, but we may not. A reporter on NPR was talking to some fishermen in Japan, who have had to learn to cope with huge [...]
    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:08am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • A Cure for Blue Christmas

    Kmareka.com

    Buy Nothing Day is a holiday tradition on the State House lawn. It happens on the day after Thanksgiving. Bring a coat if you have an extra, take one if you need one. Meet your neighbors and share some Christmas spirit. No lines. You can even sneak off to the [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:28pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • What’s Missing?

    Kmareka.com

    It’s just a piece of pop culture trivia, that a poster for the American movie, ‘Couple’s Retreat’ had a British version, with the black couple removed. Actually, the movie looked like a woofer to me, so I wasn’t going to see it anyway. But it suggests an intellectual exercise. Look [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:22pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Seth MacFarlane

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 5
    I should be happy to see a local boy make good. I should be a fan. Or maybe not. I’ve heard that Family Guy can be pretty offensive. Maybe I’d be offended if I watched it. But I cannot. Everyone in it looks like Garfield. Garfield did not look like [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:50am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Carrie Prejean–Courtesan

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    Number of comments: 1
    So I’m surfing the web while waiting for my toenail polish to dry, and there’s more on Carrie Prejean, who Republican America saw as the next Anita Bryant. I think it was unfair to put her on the spot with a loaded political question while she was competing in a [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:40am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Concrete and Vinyl Siding

    Kmareka.com

    Several years ago there was a man in my neighborhood who raised eyebrows by cutting down all the trees in his yard and paving it over. (It was in the area between Camp St. and N. Main, to the best of my recollection.) His landscaping was legal, but weird. Like [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:47am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Advent Season

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 1
    The Christian holy season of Advent begins on Sunday, November 29. Perhaps the remedy for shopping frenzy is to look to the deeper roots of the Season. Marian Styles-Mc Clintock calls to us from the Christian tradition, with words of peace, goodwill, and kindness to the tired, pregnant stranger and [...]
    Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:35pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Z Gallery

    Kmareka.com

    How Federal Hill has changed. I drive up and down Atwells Avenue often, undeterred by the rumor that the Holy Hand Grenade is going to drop on an unwary driver someday. I hadn’t seen the night life for a while, and each elegant restaurant is more enticing than the last. [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:47am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Have Some Respect. Block, But do not Strike Clergy

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 4
    I’m agnostic most of the time, and atheist a couple of times a month, but I retain some old Catholic School training. If a nun should attack me now, I would block her, but not counter-punch. I think that’s more than fair. I’ll protect myself, but assaulting religious people seems [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:02am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Standing on the Side of Love

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 4
    Fortunately we don’t have a state religion, or religion by majority rule. Our Governor seems to misread his role and duty. The Catholic Church has his ear, and gives him its support, but the Bishop does not speak for all Catholics, let alone all Rhode Islanders, and there are other [...]
    Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:00pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Politics

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    Number of comments: 1
    Happy Veterans Day to all who served, all their families and friends. May we find the way to peace. Happy Veterans Day to my Dad and Father in Law, and all the people I meet in elder care who have stories to tell. It’s off to work today. I’m watching [...]
    Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:11am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Blue Rhode Island

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    I’m totally bummed. On the Happiness Index Rhode Island is 37th out of the 50 states. Not only that– if you drift over the border into Seekonk or Attleboro you enter a state that made the top ten. What could possibly make Massachusetts happier than Rhode Island? We have snotty colleges, [...]
    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:16pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Shooter Speaks–I’m Not Listening

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    Number of comments: 5
    The news is that the Fort Hood shooter is conscious and speaking. Who cares what he has to say? It’s just another angry man who had access to guns buying himself instant fame with other people’s lives. I once saw a man in the IMH–he was lying on the floor [...]
    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:26am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Anti-Reform Protest

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    Number of comments: 2
    Channel 6 had coverage of an anti-health reform protest outside the office of Sen. Whitehouse. There were about eight protesters. I have to say that the pro-reform demonstrations I attended all last month were larger, had a positive message, and more attractive signs. So there. [...]
    Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:24pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • A Dirty Needle is a Loaded Gun

    Kmareka.com

    I used to work in elderly high-rise buildings, and I’d urge the residents to be careful. Maintenance workers were getting stuck with discarded needles. This was earlier in the AIDS epidemic. A needlestick is a nasty injury now, but even more frightening then, because there was no prophylactic treatment and [...]
    Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:45am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Here on the Ground

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 7
    I’m on this weekend, so it’s off to work today. I’m looking to see what will happen with health care reform here on the ground. The House has passed a bill, now it goes to the Senate for debate. It’s not the reform I would have chosen, given my first,second [...]
    Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:40am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Max Cleland on the Forever War of the Mind

    Kmareka.com

    Fort Hood has been in the news all today, on my radio as I drive from house to house visiting patients. It’s a tragedy I have no comprehension of, no way to make sense of. But the people who serve, who live on the bases, who suffer the wounds of [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:50pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Everyone Loves a Secret

    Kmareka.com

    So I’m reading Margaret Atwood’s ‘Year of the Flood’,– a dystopia that is all too real. If Atwood doesn’t turn me vegetarian, she might at least put me off fast food. ‘Oryx and Crake’ had ‘chickie-nobs’. They looked like something deep-fried you would buy at the Colonel, and were efficiently [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:22am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Lunch at the Liberty

    Kmareka.com

    Can’t complain. At least there’s eggs at the Liberty Elm Diner, with a sculpture show to feed the aesthetic sense. It’s nice to have a place to take a break. [...]
    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:21pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • No Answers

    Kmareka.com

    As of this writing there are no answers to the violence at Fort Hood. Possibly three soldiers were involved in a shooting rampage, carried out without warning for reasons unknown. Why did they attack without provocation? And why does this keep happening? I don’t even know what to feel. Grief, [...]
    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:06pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Nomi’s Back

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    Number of comments: 1
    At I Dreamed I Saw Grace P. Last Night. Welcome back to the blogging world, Nomi, we missed you. [...]
    Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:57pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Doctors Hooked on Coke

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    Number of comments: 1
    Should I have said, ‘hooked by Coke’? CHICAGO – Advice about soft drinks and health from one of the nation’s largest doctors groups will soon be brought to you by Coke. The American Academy of Family Physicians has prompted outcry and lost members over its new six-figure alliance with the Coca-Cola [...]
    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:48am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Author Smackdown–Margaret Atwood v. Ursula LeGuin

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    Number of comments: 4
    Okay, not exactly the WWF. But LeGuin has some provocative takes on what constitutes science fiction. Actually, these two distinguished and prescient authors have nothing but good to say about each other. I just chose an inflammatory headline because I’m looking for attention. Visit our site. Often. [...]
    Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:21pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • An Effective Vaccine

    Kmareka.com

    So is cancer not only preventable, but even treatable, with a vaccine? That would be good news. The most promising tool of medicine is the human immune system. [...]
    Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:56pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Not Worried about 2012

    Kmareka.com

    Driving into Boston, up Rt. 93, you will see a huge billboard with no message except four numbers–2012!!!. Start screaming now! I love this stuff. Anyone remember the prediction that Comet Kohoutek would be ten times brighter than the sun? Probably you don’t, because the comet was a dud. But [...]
    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:10pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Barbara Ehrenreich on Positive Thinking and Vaccines

    Kmareka.com

    The media thrive on a cycle of panic. They need to have a crisis to draw viewers. Readers who take the longer view will recall that the ‘swine flu’ has been a worry to scientists for about a decade. H1N1 and similar viruses have been circulating around the world, causing [...]
    Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:33am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • The Loophole is Closed

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 1
    The Governor signed a law making prostitution illegal in Rhode Island, indoors or outdoors. I opposed this, but I hope I was wrong. I hope that Rep. Giannini and Prof. Donna Hughes and all those who conflated trafficking and prostitution are vindicated in their belief that this is the way [...]
    Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:01pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Technically American

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 1
    Well, that’s a new one on me. This year’s New York City Marathon winner is American, but not enough to make us proud, according to Darren Rovell, CNBC sports reporter. He actually did use the term, ‘technically American’. Meb Keflezighi, who won yesterday in New York, is technically American by virtue [...]
    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:18pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Free Credit Report?

    Kmareka.com

    Come to think of it, why should banks be allowed to maintain a secret ranking system of customers that they share with everyone but the customer? Isn't that kind of monopolistic? ' [...]
    Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:59am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • All Souls

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 1
    Almost a hundred years ago, a teenage girl named Constance Witherby died suddenly of heart failure while hiking in the Swiss Alps. Her bereft mother commissioned a sculpture and dedicated a small park on a quiet street near the Blackstone River. As the years passed, the neighborhood fell on hard [...]
    Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:57pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Hope They’re Wearing Flame-Proof Vestments

    Kmareka.com

    For the clergy to issue a statement, even a late and mild one, shows moral courage. They'll face criticism, but that's their job, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. ' [...]
    Posted: November 02, 2009, 4:25pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • El Dia de los Muertos

    Kmareka.com

    In Pawtuxet. ProJo article here. [...]
    Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:39pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • El Dia de los Muertos

    Kmareka.com

    In Pawtuxet. ProJo article here. [...]
    Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:39pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • The Panic of 2004

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 1
    Frightened people, elderly and those who had health conditions that would have made the flu very dangerous, were asking if I had any inside information, but there was simply no vaccine. The Chiron Corporation, one of only two manufacturers, had its plant closed down by the FDA. The vials were [...]
    Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:45pm EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Why Deny It?

    Kmareka.com

    The Governator is a tough-talking guy most of the time. I remember when he told the world he was going to beat those California nurses. They won. But he made a good try. Recently he sent a veto message containing an acrostic that Kmareka editorial policy won’t allow me to print [...]
    Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:02am EST
    by ninjanurse
  • Be Scary Tonight!

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 1
    From Scottsman.com comes proof of synchronicity. Incredibly, in the same week that Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network posted–and then un-posted, a lurid warning about the occult influences lurking in Halloween candy bars, Catholic theologians issue a warning against having fun on October 31st. Remember that November 1st is All Saints [...]
    Posted: October 31, 2009, 7:12pm EDT
    by ninjanurse
  • Shadow Woman

    Kmareka.com

    Women in the Muslim world risk flogging to wear jeans. Why? Because being yourself in the world is worth suffering for. [...]
    Posted: October 31, 2009, 8:17am EDT
    by ninjanurse
  • It’s About Time

    Kmareka.com

    The Senate has confirmed Dr. Regina Benjamin as our new Surgeon General. Highly qualified, and much needed, Dr. Benjamin has been kept waiting while politics held up what should have been a quick confirmation. With a flu crisis ongoing, and much work to be done to improve the health of our [...]
    Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:17pm EDT
    by ninjanurse
  • Public Option

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 3
    At least 50 Rhode Islanders came out on a chilly evening Thursday, October 29 to show support for a strong public option for health insurance. Rallying on the steps of City Hall we sang, waved signs and got lots of support from passers-by. The rally ended with a march to [...]
    Posted: October 29, 2009, 8:35pm EDT
    by ninjanurse
  • Parents Beware

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 4
    It used to be easy. Just throw out all the apples, (in case of razor blades), make sure everything’s wrapped, and tell your kids to stay away from that house on the corner with the barking dogs. Of course, you make sure someone of the age of reason is walking [...]
    Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:22pm EDT
    by ninjanurse
  • We Can’t Afford the Status Quo

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 1
    Everyone knows that waste is costing us. My teachers in nursing school, my employers, the patients. We all try to be careful, but it’s like bailing with a teacup when there’s a hole in the bottom of the boat. The fundamental problem is that health care in America is not a [...]
    Posted: October 29, 2009, 8:38am EDT
    by ninjanurse
  • How to be a Best Seller

    Kmareka.com

    According to Alternet, Sarah Palin’s new book is selling at a deep discount on right wing sites even before it’s released. If you read the New York Times bestseller list, look for the little thingy that looks like a dagger, indicating bulk sales. Who’s on your Christmas list? [...][...]
    Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:05pm EDT
    by ninjanurse
  • Where No One’s Looking

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 1
    The Rhode Island legislature is moving to ban indoor prostitution. The most likely result will be arrests at the spas.  In police raids the women picked up are adults. They say they are in it for the money. Real trafficking is harder to find than through the doors of a [...]
    Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:37pm EDT
    by ninjanurse
  • A Ghostly Presence

    Kmareka.com

    Number of comments: 1
    Who was the bearded red-haired man? On a quiet street on the East Side, someone has seized a part of a stone wall to create a shrine for him. Whiskey, hot wheels, motorcycles and an Irish flag.  Tell me, readers, was he a friend of yours? [...]
    Posted: October 27, 2009, 4:56pm EDT
    by ninjanurse
  • Found Poem

    Kmareka.com

    From the History Channel, Just Before Halloween Death Masks Brought To You By Nature Valley Granola Bars [...]
    Posted: October 26, 2009, 9:16pm EDT
    by ninjanurse

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