On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:18:30 -0400, in
<ke2dnbQfYdPKdSrVnZ2dnUVZ_sninZ2d@comcast.com> "Ben Skversky"
<bskv19114@comcast.net> wrote:

I miss Loretta! She hasn't been back, for the most part, since she became a
grandmother, right?

The politics I post here are on health care or to
throw cold water on the overdone political nonsense.

The diabetic problem will never be solved by
big mouth demanding people  doing a good job of
perverting a diabetic information group.

Any here for personal.satisfaction purposes should
go over where the child molesters hang out and the
mass of trash issues are discussed.

The health care problems will not be solved  by
the basket weaving degree or the terminal campers
sucking on a bottle of booze.

Technically competent people are humbled by their
understanding of the limitation of the human.

Ben, I am being aggressive because this should be
said.  I have nothing to lose.  

How dare you ding my cold water, anti political
posts.when the group is flooded by the whore
nonsense.    

To mentally disturbed people with a personal
agenda  ---that have found a group to have a ball
nipping at others for personal satisfaction.

Mister, I have had serious problems and do know the
misuse of these groups helps no one. If the trash had not
had their way in this world we might further along with
solving health care issues.

Decent health care is not a political problem  but a
moral issue. Politics is a tool to implement a decent
system.

The communists used to teach that the difference between
a dog and human is that a human will work for the good
all humans. A dog does not have the rights of a human.
What does that make a body that exploits others??

I am very pissed because of the gross misuse of the
intent and charter of these groups. and the covert
misuse of a "group for all".   I can say it sand will say it.

The efforts to shut me up, so some can have a party is
far from proper.   I would never have piped up because
I am very tired but I be damned if some drunken bully
picks on me give them satisfaction..

Chung is so far ahead of a lot that make fun of him.

The goal is to make some uncomfortable since they are
easily  targets. they can pass it out but cannot take it.

God forbid that they share anything.

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Not directly since we live on the top of a hill.They have said that
over 800 homes are ruined beyond repair. It did effect a number of our
friends. Some have been able to repair the damage, but one good
friend's house was filled with water up to the ceiling. He lost all of
his furniture including his furnace, water heater, all appliances and
the kitchen cupboards. He has stripped the house down to the stud
including the siding and windows because of damage and mold. He is
really hoping that either the city or FEMA will buy him out. The place
he has worked for over 26 years, Souvenir Pen and Pencil was
completely flooded too. They started to move the machinery back that
they had taken to factories they own in Wisconsin and Minnesota when
they found out that neither their insurance company nor FEMA were
going to reimburse them. They told the freight haulers to turn around
and take it back where they had picked it up. After they complete the
clean up they are going to close the place down and not reopen it.  He
says he may just collect unemployment while he weighs his options and
decides if he even wants to stay in Cedar Rapids.

He, like a lot of those directly effected, has been fighting the anger
and depression that comes because of such a loss.

He gave us a Yucca plant and some Hostas he'd planted around his house
many years ago.

Laurie has to drive through one of the areas hardest hit by the flood
when she goes to and from work. About 20 blocks from where we live
there is a house that is halfway out in the street and has been ever
since the flood. The devastation is unbelievable to anyone who has
never seed the after effects of this kind of flooding.

We feel that we are very fortunate. So many families have lost
everything. They say it was a once in 500 year flood. Let us hope it
is another 500 years before anything like this happens again.

Ben, how have you been doing these past months?