Fulfilling a promise to CameronProf

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Thursday June 15, 2023 · 5:37 AM PDT

2023/06/15 · 05:37

CameronProf (BFSkinner) on the right and his brother, wearing a mask, on the left.

This story is being written because of a promise I made to my brother Jeremy.

You all know him as CameronProf.

It is with great sadness that I relay the news of his passing last night around 7 pm.

Jeremy made a point of telling me that I needed to go on Daily Kos and tell everyone in the case of his demise. He mentioned it multiple times, probably just to make sure that I remembered.

Well, Jeremy, I remembered, and I know your community here will remember you too. I am leaving his posts up on the site for as long as I can.

Please support animal rescue, it is what he would want.

עליה השלום‎

Reading anything that you would suggest other people read?

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Thursday June 08, 2023 · 7:24 PM PDT

2023/06/08 · 19:24

A friend dropped off a novel “Michel Michel“ by Robert Lewis.

It is a novel based in France just after World War 2. It tells the story of a child who was sent to live in a Catholic school run by religious women. The head woman determines that she was his mom and decided to Baptize the child and raise him as a Catholic. The child’s parents died in the Holocaust but his aunt and uncle survived and made it to Palestine. After he was they sent for the child but the new “mother” refused to give him up. He, with the help of the church, moved him from one safe house to another to try to hid him from his real family.

I have no idea how it will turn out, and it is an easy read except it is written in a very small text size os I get eye ztrain after reading a few pages and have to put it down for a bit.

How about you? Reading anything good that you’d suggest other people pick up?

Target backs away from gay rights due to fear.

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Wednesday June 07, 2023 · 8:51 PM PDT

2023/06/07 · 20:51

FILE - A sign outside a Target store is seen Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. On May 26, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming Target’s Pride collection features a bathing suit for kids that is labeled “tuck-friendly.” (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

A gay couple went to buy a onsie and some baby formula for their child. When they went to purchase the item they were told by a store employee and manager that the item should have been pulled off the rack and was no longer available for purchase.

You can read the whole story here.

Target’s defense of their actions is hollow and rotten to the core.

First they defend their past support and then say they re-evaluated their pro-inclusive policy due to fear.

In a statement about its May 24 decision, the company said: “For more than a decade, Target has offered an assortment of products aimed at celebrating Pride Month. Since introducing this year’s collection, we’ve experienced threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety and well-being while at work.

“Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior. Our focus now is on moving forward with our continuing commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community and standing with them as we celebrate Pride Month and throughout the year,” it said.

So…….they will support us until it is no longer popular to do so due to pressure from bigots?

All minority groups, gays, blacks, Jews, etc., should be loudly vocal about this. If they easily bow to pressure against one group as a decision to trample rights then what is stopping them from doing the same thing towards other groups?

I used to be a loyal Target shopper but n more….until they grow a spine.

Back in High School did you belong to any team, or club?

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Tuesday June 06, 2023 · 3:08 AM PDT

2023/06/06 · 03:08

I, way back 40 years or so ago, was a member of two teams:

1) Forensics: I wrote and delivered informative speeches, The main one I wrote and delivered was on infamous mass murders, My friends and I, people I still hang out with since back then, still recall the opening line of my speech because it was so bad:

Whitman, Unruh, Desalvo, Speck, Huberty…..do these names mean anything to you? They should make you shutter. All were infamous mass murderers,

Needless to say I did not advance far.

Usually though my main focus was on

2) Policy debate. Each year we had a topic, like water pollution, and we were on the Affirmative (The present system is bad and we have a plan to fix it and the Negative that basically argued that the status quo was either OK or that the Affirmative plan would make everything a lot worse.

I was OK in debate, finishing with a 500 win/loss record. I went on a few years post high school graduation as a debate judge. A great job with decent money.

Beyond debate and forensics I was a lonely Jew, in the Latin club. :)

We had to take a foreign language and I have always had extreme difficulty speaking and learning a language, so I took Latin not having to worry as much about conversations and a lot of words had similar connections to English words.

How about you? Did you belong to any teams or clubs in High School?

Songs about depression.

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Monday June 05, 2023 · 3:05 PM PDT

2023/06/05 · 15:05

As I wrote yesterday I am going thru a bout of severe depression. I wrote to get ideas about how to possibly loose the funk and the Kos community came up with many suggestions and ideas, and I was blessed enough that the diary was recommended.

I am taking several of the ideas to heart, since if they have worked in the past for others, perhaps they will work for me.

With 5 dollars in my bank account,being under 55 and living more than likely for the rest of my life in a nursing home, with hospital trips every other month due to either COPD flare or high levels of CO2 in my system which means I crash and cannot be woken up, I set myself up for this funk I am in.

Several people suggested delving into music to try to get the edge of the depression,, and since I often post diaries on or about music, I thought I would combine the two topics and see which songs people can come up with relating to depression and/or overcoming it.

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REM is one of my favorite bands, and Everybody Hurts I think sums up depression very well.

What song can you come up with?

What do you do to help get out of depression?

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Sunday June 04, 2023 · 6:49 PM PDT

2023/06/04 · 18:49

Above is my self portrait.

I have been very depressed as of late. I suffer from clinical depression and I take meds for it, but nothing seems to be helping at the moment.

Due to health and economic reasons I am way down in the dumps. I thought I was doing better the other day when I finally got home from the hospital but my depression hit me like a ton of bricks.

Most of the time as of late I just want to toss in the towel and give up.

I know there is no magic wand anyone can wave to help but short of winning the lottery or trading my body in for a whole new one I am at wits end.

When you get totally down does anything help?

You have the ability to donate $1000 to one charity. Which would you select?

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Saturday June 03, 2023 · 6:11 PM PDT

2023/06/03 · 18:11

A political organization? An animal welfare group? An environmental protection organization? Erc…..is there one group you would donate to, only one…. you cannot break up the donation to multiple causes.

Would you donate to a local, state, or national group? Or even to individuals, like people on Daily Kos who need financial support?

For me it is a tough question. There is a local cat shelter that, when I have had money to donate to, that I have supported. Or would I give it to the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces? Or would I just go local and donate it to people that I come across on the Kos who are in a hardship situation? I have donated in the past to all 3, so I guess I would pick one of the above and donate.

How about you?

Songs about body parts. Have a favorite?

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Friday June 02, 2023 · 4:36 PM PDT

2023/06/02 · 16:36

Boston, MA - FEBRUARY 26: Chuck Berry performs during the 2012 Awards for Lyrics of Literary Excellence at The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library And Museum on February 26, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Marc Andrew Deley/Getty Images) — Chuck Berry

Sure there are a lot of songs about the human heart and brain, but can you come up with your favorite song about a human body part??

Mine is an easy choice….

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I grew up in the early 70s listening to my brother and sister’s collection of records. One of my favorite songs was My Ding A Ling… maybe even back when I was 5 or so, hen I started playing the records I knew I was gay so I loved this song. :)

How about you? Do you have any favorite songs about a human body part?

He/she died, but their music still lives on. Name your favorite.

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Thursday June 01, 2023 · 12:42 PM PDT

2023/06/01 · 12:42

There are so many artists that one could list to answer this question.

Lennon, Joplin, etc., it is not too hard to recall the name of a talent that is no longer with us, yet their music survives.

But for me I have to vote for one of my favorite musical performers of all time.

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How often, on average, do you have at least 1 day/night in the hospital per year?

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Wednesday May 31, 2023 · 9:40 PM PDT

2023/05/31 · 21:40

Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital, serving communities such as The Woodlands, Conroe, Spring, Klein, and beyond.

As many of you know I suffer from multiple disorders and spent too much time in the hospital.

I was in for 10 days, got out for 4 days and now I’m back in where I have been in now for 4 days and I have been told I will be here until at least Friday.

Oy, Calgon take me away!

I end up in the hospital, at least for the last 5 years, on average 5 to 10 days at least every other month.

Trust me, from being depressed and fearful and often in pain and lonely there are many other places I wish I could be.

How about you? On average how often do you get admitted to a hospital?

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How often are you admitted for at least 1 overnight to the hospital?

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How often are you admitted for at least 1 overnight to the hospital?

Never been admitted to the hospital

46 votes

Less than once a year

142 votes

One time per year

7 votes

2 to 5 times per year

5 votes

More than 6 times per year

1 vote

Other

6 votes

Hospital Kidney Pie

1 vote

Songs about direction/location

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Wednesday May 31, 2023 · 9:25 AM PDT

2023/05/31 · 09:25

Growing up in metro Detroit made it so that I grew up with a good sense of direction.

Here in Oakland County Michigan most of the main east/west roads are “Mile” roads, with start of the county (As well as Macomb county to our east is…..

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I grew up off of 11 miles, and now I live just south of 16 mile. It is easy enough to figure out where someone lives as long as you are also familiar with the main north and south roads.

Because of that maybe I know a lot of songs about or containing topics related to direction.

In fact one of my favorite songs of all time falls under this topic….

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How about you, do you have a favorite song about direction or position?

The last time you did something do you recall what that something was & when you stopped?

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Tuesday May 30, 2023 · 1:51 AM PDT

2023/05/30 · 01:51

Thanks to a discussion in an earlier diary tonight Mercy Omont suggested a great question for me to ask.

Please check out the whole diary here,by mcGovern78

We all have engaged in behaviors in the past that we no longer do, from changing a child’s diaper to quitting a behavior, or traveling to a certain spot.

The event could be positive, negative, or even neutral but it is something we used to do but no longer do.

For me the first thing that comes to mind is smoking. I used to smoke for about 25 years until I quit in August 2008.

How about you? Do you remember the exact time that you used to engage in a behavior that you no longer do?

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