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Gil Spencer: The beat drones on for aging hospital
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09/16/2005
It is 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, and I am standing outside the Haverford
Township municipal building. Inside, what has been described as the most
dysfunctional elected body in Delaware County (this side of Darby
Borough) is conducting its monthly meeting.
The room is packed. Even the anteroom at the entrance is packed. To get
inside, I’d have to push through about 10 people. I am told a soccer
team is being honored and it might clear out after that. I figure I’ll
wait. Besides, its cooler out here and the company isn’t bad.
The first person I see is attorney Pat Biswanger.
The last time I saw her, it was at an anti-Ken Clouse protest at the
courthouse. She used to be a friend of President Judge Clouse’s. Now
she’s an enemy. But she’s a jovial one.
I tell her I’m here to see what’s going on with the Haverford State
project. It’s been more than seven years since the township acquired the
206-acre property, and the board of commissioners still hasn’t settled
on a development plan.
Biswanger is aligned with the newest Havertown Commissioners boss, Andy
Lewis, who has been a strong critic of the development group
(Pohlig/Goldenberg) that won the right to develop the property two years
ago. Since his election, Lewis has been beating the PO-GOs with a stick.
A slim majority of the board has now joined him.
For months, PO-GO has been trying to get the board to commit to a plan,
and for months the board has dragged its feet. Every year that goes by
with the property remaining undeveloped, the township loses millions in
tax revenue, not to mention the prospective ballfields and recreation
areas that Haverford children have gone without. An effectively
functioning board might have had something built four years ago. But, as
I said, Haverford Township is a place where effective functioning takes
a back seat to other priorities.
Biswanger, however, defends the delay and her protégé.
Sometimes, she tells me, a delay like this can save money in the long
run. I’m calling her Spinswanger from now on. But that doesn’t mean I
don’t like her.
Passing the time, she tells me a story about her cousin Kathy McCan, a
pediatrician who headed down to New Orleans to help the hurricane
victims.
"Whatever you need when you get there, let us know," Pat told her.
It turned out what was sorely needed -- by not only the victims but
their rescuers as well -- was anti-fungal cream, stuff to combat trench
foot. There was none to be found down there.
So Pat goes over to the local Eckerd drug store and grabs every tube of
fungal cream in the place -- $587 worth -- throws them in a shopping
cart and heads for the cashier.
"We looked like we had some serious problems at home," she giggles.
Inside, while the board hasn’t yet gotten to the soccer team, Pat
introduces me to just about every Haverford resident who passes by. All
except one: Lynne Cohen, longtime companion of President Judge Clouse
and the mother of Havertown District Justice Lisa Lacianca.
They don’t get along, Pat and Lynne. Pat’s grown-up daughter Caroline,
who has joined us outside, doesn’t care for Lynne either. But Lynne
looks perfectly pleasant to me, smiling and chatting with her fellow
Havertownies.
So I think to myself, "Why can’t we all just get along?"
And myself replies, "What freakin’ fun would that be?"
It’s closing in on 9 p.m. and I decide the hell with this. Our
indefatigable Lois Puglionesi is inside and on the job (and will be
until 1:30 a.m.)
I decide to retreat to the nearby Lamplighter Tavern, where I am lucky
enough to catch the end of the Phillies game and a lot of slanderous
talk from my fellow drinkers about the goings-on across the street.
Wednesday, PO-GO spokesman Mike Lawry told me "as long as we see some
good-faith effort to negotiate," the lawsuit PO-GO "reluctantly filed"
against the township a few weeks ago will stay on hold. "We’re trying to
keep the lines of communication as open as possible."
Yesterday, I talked to Andy Lewis, who had harsh words for the PO-GOs
and their lawsuit and their "slick" P.R. campaign against the township.
"We are not," he vowed, "going to be in the situation where we negotiate
with anybody who sues us."
In other words, no arms for hostages.
PO-GO withdrew the suit Thursday.
But Lewis is confident that it will all work out to a "win-win"
situation for everyone in the end.
What a relief!
In the meantime, when it comes to getting things done, the Haverford
Board of Commissioners is making FEMA look like Patton’s Third Army.
Gil Spencer’s column appears Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday. E-mail him
at gspencer@delcotimes.com
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Setting The Stage For
America's Disaster
By Frosty Wooldridge
9-16-5
By writing about severe consequences heading, like Hurricane Katrina,
toward not just New Orleans, but every state in America--readers
chastised me. They questioned past titles like, Consequences of Too Many
People; Too Many People, Too Few Solutions; and America's Coming
Overpopulation Crisis,. They felt the columns, themes did not apply to
them or wouldn't happen to them. They are correct" it won't happen to
them" it will happen to their children.
If our nation keeps thinking like the people of New Orleans--that it
won't happen to them--think again. Look at millions living in the
earthquake arena of California. It is not a question of if, but when the
9.5 scale quake hits. New Orleans was not a question of if, but when.
Same goes for those living in Florida's hurricane alley. If you travel
west, you see people building homes on the cliffs of California when
contractors told them that rains would cause slides. They built anyway
and look what happened the last two years during the rainy season. What
about those building in fire areas of California? Did you not see their
homes burn in the past two years?
What I seek to convey to the American public stems from my bicycle
travels on six continents and through the most densely populated
countries of the world. I've seen the misery, suffering, debasement of
human living conditions and I've witnessed that once human numbers
exceeded carrying capacity, all life suffers. Examine China, India,
Africa and Bangladesh for starters. They grow worse by the day. They
can't solve their numbers once manifested.
Several readers ask if I follow Thomas Malthus, "Essay on the Principle
of Population, or, they don't agree with me based on the size of the
United States. Many who pursue a religious course, say God will provide.
What they neglect to realize is, according to the March 14, 2005 issue
of Time Magazine, 8-10 million people starve to death around the planet
annually. Therefore, it is not an issue of Malthus or God; it is an
issue of a growing reality that humanity is outstripping the planet's
ability to feed, water and clothe the growing human storm, on this
planet. More sobering, humans add 85 million net gain annually on our
way from 6.4 billion to 9.8 (high estimate by Population Reference
Bureau and supporting estimates by
http://www.balance.org/www.balance.org and
http://www.npg.org/www.npg.org ) billion around 2050.
Anyone can be in denial all they want, but like Hurricane Katrina,
reality will strike when the storm hits. In other words, those that
scoff at me can sit back just like five days before Katrina hit, and
drink coffee on the back porch. But when it hits and you didn't
evacuate, you are one of the victims. And, as Time and Newsweek
graphically reported, our children. We failed the most innocent of all
by our lack of action.
In this two part column, I quote many brilliant people who know this
population Katrina storm, is headed our way. At the end, I add my own
quote to the fast approaching crisis of overpopulation.
When I talk about the crisis of overpopulation in America, plenty of
already manifested realities sober any rational mind. The quality of our
lives deteriorates daily as we add five million people annually to our
shores. The standard of living drops like a brick with millions of added
people. But let me quote those who know more and are the leaders from
the past and present.
"We must prevent human tragedy rather than run around trying to save our
selves after an event has already occurred. Unfortunately, history
clearly shows that we arrive at catastrophe by failing to meet the
situation, by failing to act when we should have acted. The opportunity
passes us by and the next disaster is always more difficult and
compounded than the last one. Eleanor Roosevelt
You may not like Eleanor, but her words ring true. What if George Bush
had been a competent president and installed a competent man as director
of FEMA? Instead, he appointed an incompetent man, Mike Brown, who was
fired from a ten year job as president of an Arabian horse association.
How was he supposed to lead a major federal agency with his good ole
boy, connections? Bush's ineptness and his own incompetence expressed
itself in Brown who manifested incompetence before and during Katrina.
We have three more years of Bush's incompetence at his position as the
leader of the free world. Bush manifests the "Peter Principle (most
persons in corporate America rise to their highest level of
incompetence; once there, they make everyone under them miserable, and
they can't grab the reigns). Bush lacks the intellectual or cognitive
ability to grow out of his incompetence. He completely screwed off as a
high school and college student with a C- average which set up his
incompetence. You can expect more blunders in the next three years that
will wreck havoc on our nation, our economy and our lives.
Eleanor is right on the money and we will pay the consequences for such
observable incompetence as Bush muddles through his second term. When it
comes to the immigration invasion of four million people crashing onto
our shores annually, Bush doesn't have a clue as to the critical impact
and danger to future generations due to sheer numbers. All those he
appointed reflect his incompetence. He's like a blind watchmaker.
So what do other brighter minds say about the worsening crisis of
overpopulation in America?
"Immigration of the kind and on the scale America has had for the last
three decades is in effect, a recipe for cultural suicide and
squandering of a rich national heritage. Dr. Lee Marland
Look at that quote and tell me you don't feel it in your community with
all the illegal aliens and non absorbing legal immigrants who can't and
won't speak English, but use and abuse our system for their own
purposes. Tell me you think our country can continue with dozens of
other languages and Stone Age cultures that don't assimilate into what
is America as a First World country.
"The two-generation indirect immigration, i.e., including the births to
foreign-born mothers, explained the incredible 98 percent of
California's growth between 1990 and 2000. Dr. Leon Bouvier
Anyone want to move to the beautiful Los Angeles area any time soon? I
would need my head examined for sanity if I wanted to move into that
grinding traffic, three million illegal alien and nine million legal
immigrant quagmire. Immigration provoked growth from 17 million in 1965
to over 36 million today. They suffer gridlock, air pollution, crime,
disease, mountains of trash, Mexico's slums and a non English speaking
populace, which is more anti-American than Castro.
As you sit reading this column, are the lights turning on? Are you
connecting the dots? Do you see the growing calamity about to visit,
possibly not you, but definitely your children here in the once
limitless USA? Exploding gas prices present harbingers of our future.
Air pollution grows thicker with every added person. Farm land
diminishes as it is poured over with asphalt and concrete. I spent the
summer bicycling 4,000 miles through Europe. Gas costs $6.00 a gallon
and as high as $8.00 a gallon in places. Forests have vanished under
farmland. People live, not in homes, but are stuffed into apartments.
They drive automobiles that feature only two doors for the driver and
passenger and their feet are almost touching the bumper of the Smart
cars" that look like upside down teacups. If you crash, sorry, you're
toast.
In the second part of this series, we will pursue the growing realities
of ignoring the current population growth of America at five million
annually. When you take five million and multiply by 60 years, you add
300 million or a doubling of the US population from 295 million to 600
million. If you think the gridlock, air pollution, acid rain,
diminishing cropland, congestion, failing health systems, global
warming, species extinction is bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet! In
other words, Population Katrina will hit all 50 states in 2060. But even
before that date, it will degrade all our lives with too many people,
shrinking freedoms, diminished resources, water wars, diseases,
maddening traffic and worsening air pollution. It's going to get ugly,
really ugly!
I'm going to add my quote to all these other people. THE MORE EXTREME
OUR NUMBERS, THE MORE EXTREME OUR CHILDREN'S CONSEQUENCES.
Unless, of course, you decide to get involved in your children's future.
Part II: How do we change course?
Write for that 28-point action letter to stop this nation-destroying
madness at www.frostywooldridge.com. For you West Coast night owls,
every Thursday you can catch yours truly in Las Vegas, Nevada on Mark
Edwards, "Wake Up America" talk show on 50,000watt KDWN-Am-720 10:00 PM
to midnight PT, or on the worldwide internet at
http://www.wakeupamericafoundation.com
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Too much military – Too little humanity
By James Rothenberg
09/16/05 "ICH" -- -- The United States of America launched its
invasion against Iraq on March 20, 2003. On March 21, the American
Physical Society emailed Dr. Daniel Amit, an eminent Israeli physicist,
seeking his review of a scientific paper. That same day came his two
sentence reply: “I will not at this point correspond with any American
institution. Some of us have lived through 1939.”
On April 8, the Editor-in-Chief acknowledged Dr. Amit’s refusal while
holding out hope that in the not too distant future he reconsider his
position because, “We regard science as an international enterprise and
we do our best to put aside political disagreements…”
The following day came Dr. Amit’s eloquent reply: “Thank you for you
letter of April 8. I would have liked to be able to share the honorable
sentiments you express in your letter as well as your optimism in the
future role of science and the scientific community. To be frank, and
with much sadness and pain, after 40 years of activity and
collaboration, I find very little reason for such optimism. What we are
watching today, I believe, is a culmination of 10-15 years of mounting
barbarism of the American culture the world over, crowned by the
achievements of science and technology as a major weapon of mass
destruction.
“We are witnessing man hunt and wanton killing of the type and scale not
seen since the raids on American Indian populations, by a superior
technological power of inferior culture and values. We see no corrective
force to restrain the insanity, the self-righteousness and the lack of
respect for human life (civilian and military) of another race.
“Science cannot stay neutral, especially after it has been so cynically
used in the hands of the inspectors to disarm a country and prepare it
for decimation by laser guided cluster bombs. No, science of the
American variety has no recourse. I, personally, cannot see myself
anymore sharing a common human community with American science.
Unfortunately, I also belong to a culture of a similar spiritual
deviation (Israel), and which seems to be equally incorrigible.
“In desperation I cannot but turn my attention to other tragic periods
in which major societies, some with claims to fundamental contributions
to culture and science, have deviated so far as to be relegated to
ostracism and quarantine. At this point I think American society should
be considered in this category. I have no illusions of power, as to the
scope and prospect of my attitude. But, the minor role of my act and
statement is a simple way of affirming that in the face of a growing
enormity which I consider intolerable, I will exercise my own tiny act
of disobedience to be able to look straight into the eyes of my
grandchildren and my students and say that I did know.”
On September 7, 2005, the United Nations Human Development Report 2005
was released. Echoing Dr. Amit’s characterization of the US as “a
superior technological power of inferior culture and values”, it accuses
the rich countries (that would be us) of having “an overdeveloped
military strategy and an under-developed strategy for human security.”
Among the report’s striking findings is that when it comes to
inequality, poverty, and mortality rates, the US doesn’t have to take a
back seat to anyone. Our child poverty rate exceeds 20%, like Mexico.
Our child (under age 5) mortality rate has been rising since year 2000.
Our infant mortality rate is the same as Malaysia.
How is this possible given our country’s enormous resources and great
wealth? Lighter- skinned Americans benefit from these resources
disproportionately from darker-skinned Americans that weigh down the
averages. In the absence of a universal health insurance system (the US
being alone among the wealthy nations in that regard), the poorer have
to fend for themselves.
The report notes: “Unequal access to healthcare has a powerful effect on
health inequalities linked to race, which are only partly explained by
insurance and income inequalities. One study finds that eliminating the
gap in healthcare between African Americans and white Americans would
save nearly 85,000 lives a year. To put this figure in context,
technological improvements in medicine save about 20,000 lives a year.
“The comparison highlights a paradox at the heart of the US health
system. High levels of personal healthcare spending reflect the
country’s cutting-edge medical technology and treatment. Yet social
inequalities, interacting with inequalities in health financing, limit
the reach of medical advance.”
Another paradox can be noted, this time in the document, The National
Security Strategy of the United States of America, September 2002.
“Today, the United States enjoys a position of unparalleled military
strength and great economic and political influence. In keeping with our
heritage and principles, we do not use our strength to press for
unilateral advantage. We seek instead to create a balance of power that
favors human freedom: conditions in which all nations and all societies
can choose for themselves the rewards and challenges of political and
economic liberty.”
Contrast those words with these that come later on: “It is time to
reaffirm the essential role of American military strength. We must build
and maintain our defenses beyond challenge….Innovation within the armed
forces will rest on experimentation with new approaches to warfare,
strengthening joint operations, exploiting U.S. intelligence advantages,
and taking full advantage of science and technology….Our forces will be
strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military
build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United
States.”
You see, we don’t press for advantage – never have. We seek a balance of
power by making certain, by use of force, that nobody even thinks of
depriving us of our advantage, which we do not seek. Get it?
Copyright: James Rothenberg
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