Saturday, June 15, 2013

"How to Save a Life"


The Huff says Governo, er Governor LePage vetoes lifesaving 'Good Samaritan' bill - would protect people who ask for drug OD help....but not necessarily people addicted to Iraqi orphan oil 'happy Fatherless Day' gas.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tessie-castillo/governor-lepage-of-maine_b_3446756.html

http://youtu.be/cjVQ36NhbMk  ' how to save a life ' the fray



                                          mp3  The Fray's Website

so you hypothetically meet lindsay l also hypothetically making a court ordered attempt at abstinence  hiking the atv trail near the oasis dream pond water lilies lajoies potato field picnic table out of desperation and the heat of the pale valley evening turning to shades dream of  stars before the epic you fall in love  partially disrobed she asks  for  vicodin  succumbing as the evening dew sprizles on her moonlit breast  like vernors gingerale when your neologisms made more sense

so if you have to hypothetically call for help because either of you od s on the bliss of alleged american freedom do you mean to say that you will not get in trouble because you were just helping someone?


http://bangordailynews.com/2013/06/13/opinion/letters/thursday-june-14-2013-government-hurting-preschools-get-care-close-to-home/comments/

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"Maine laws are exactly the opposite of what you think.
you are required to respond to someone in distress up to the level of training you have.
if you do not exceed what you are trained on, then you are legally protected from being sued if it doesn't go well.
if you exceed your training you are legally liable for any damage you do. ie your trained in CPR only, and do surgery, or administer controlled drugs you are liable for any damage you do. But if you only do CPR, and break the patients ribs, you are protected."






"In the United States, there is no 'general duty to render aid,' which in legalese means no one is compelled to help and a victim cannot file a civil suit if someone doesn't stop to help. 
There are exceptions, however, in Hawaii, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Rhode Island.
In those states, if you are able to help a victim without injuring yourself but you fail to offer aid, you could face criminal liability and be charged with a minor penalty like a petty misdemeanor or a $100 fine.
In some states, if you stop to check on an injured person but you don't follow through by making sure they get the medical help they need, you could be sued."    
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"...unless it is established that such injuries or such death were caused willfully, wantonly or recklessly or by gross negligence on the part of such person." - Maine Revised Statutes - Part 1 - Chapter 7 - Section 164

  "2. Prohibition. A person may not use an AED on another person unless the person using the AED:
          A. Has successfully completed a course, approved by the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association or the department, in the use and operation of the AED; and
          B. Has made a reasonable attempt to summon appropriate emergency services personnel when communication is possible. "
            

-  Sec. 1. 22 MRSA c. 421



http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/14/title14sec164.html

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/wanton

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/recklessly

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/gross+negligence

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Negligence

http://www.mainelegislature.org/ros/LOM/lom120th/8pub351-400/Pub351-400-51.htm

http://oxywatchdog.com/2013/06/vt-becomes-13th-state-to-pass-good-samaritan-law/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tessie-castillo/governor-lepage-of-maine_b_3446756.html

Maine Revised Statutes


§163§164-A
Title 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Part 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 7: DEFENSES GENERALLY

§164. Immunity from civil liability

Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of any public or private and special law, any person who voluntarily, without the expectation of monetary or other compensation from the person aided or treated, renders first aid, emergency treatment or rescue assistance to a person who is unconscious, ill, injured or in need of rescue assistance, shall not be liable for damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by such person nor for damages for the death of such person alleged to have occurred by reason of an act or omission in the rendering of such first aid, emergency treatment or rescue assistance, unless it is established that such injuries or such death were caused willfully, wantonly or recklessly or by gross negligence on the part of such person. This section shall apply to members or employees of nonprofit volunteer or governmental ambulance, rescue or emergency units, whether or not a user or service fee may be charged by the nonprofit unit or the governmental entity and whether or not the members or employees receive salaries or other compensation from the nonprofit unit or the governmental entity. This section shall not be construed to require a person who is ill or injured to be administered first aid or emergency treatment if such person objects thereto on religious grounds. This section shall not apply if such first aid or emergency treatment or assistance is rendered on the premises of a hospital or clinic.[1977, c. 69, (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
1969, c. 565, (NEW). 1975, c. 452, §1 (RPR). 1975, c. 679, §1 (AMD). 1977, c. 69, (AMD).

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PUBLIC LAWS OF MAINE
First Regular Session of the 120th

    CHAPTER 364
    H.P. 1069 - L.D. 1432
    An Act to Encourage Greater Acquisition, Deployment and Use of Automated External Defibrillators
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
         Sec. 1. 22 MRSA c. 421 is enacted to read:
    CHAPTER 421
    AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS
    §2150-C. Automated external defibrillators
         1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.
      A. "Automated external defibrillator" or "AED" means a medical device approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration that:
        (1) Is capable of recognizing the presence or absence of ventricular fibrillation or rapid ventricular tachycardia;
        (2) Is capable of determining whether defibrillation should be performed on an individual;
        (3) Upon determination that defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges and requests delivery of an electrical impulse to an individual's heart; and
        (4) Upon action by an operator, delivers an appropriate electrical impulse to the individual's heart to perform defibrillation.
      B. "Department" means the Department of Public Safety.
         2. Prohibition. A person may not use an AED on another person unless the person using the AED:
      A. Has successfully completed a course, approved by the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association or the department, in the use and operation of the AED; and
      B. Has made a reasonable attempt to summon appropriate emergency services personnel when communication is possible.
    This subsection does not apply to a person licensed under Title 32, chapter 2-B or to a health care practitioner, as defined in Title 24, section 2502, subsection 1-A, if the practitioner has received training in the use of an AED.
    The department may provide periodic training bulletins and other information to persons owning and using an AED.
         3. Duties. A person who owns or leases an AED shall:
      A. Consult with a licensed physician for technical assistance in the selection and storage location of an AED, training of potential operators, protocols for use and use review;
      B. Notify the Maine Emergency Medical Services within the department of:
        (1) The existence, location and type of AED the person possesses; and
        (2) The clinical use made of the AED; and
      C. Maintain and test the AED in accordance with the applicable standards of the manufacturer and any other standards prescribed by the department.
         4. Penalties. A person who violates any provision of this section commits a civil violation for which a civil forfeiture not exceeding $50 may be adjudged.
         5. Effect on other law. This section is not intended to modify or limit and may not be interpreted as modifying or limiting the immunities provided under Title 14, section 164.
Effective September 21, 2001, unless otherwise indicated.
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Nadeau's house of furnication





Bangor Daily News quotes Raperesentative, er Representative Nadeau :
"Rep. Michael Nadeau, R-Fort Kent, meanwhile, argued that the state should not expand Medicaid when as many as 3,100 people remain on a waitlist for services. 'My constituents are going to say, ‘We’ve neglected this group of people,’ he said."



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Followthemoney.org says insurance companies contributed 1.95%, or $618,477 of Colorado's Citizens for an Effective Government contributions




.........



that maineinsights.com says helped State Representative Allen Michael Nadeau (R- Fort Kent) apparently defeat John Martin by 278 votes in 2012.


March 2, 2013's BDN says:
"On Nov. 5, the day before Nadeau beat long-time Rep. John Martin, D-Eagle Lake, by a vote of 2,132 to 1,854, the ethics commission unanimously found that Soucy and Nadeau had violated Maine’s election laws, according to a previously published report. Because Nadeau received public campaign funds under the Maine Clean Election Act, he was prohibited from accepting contributions."








http://bangordailynews.com/2013/06/12/opinion/editorials/irrational-gop-threatens-medicaid-expansion/
ttp://bangordailynews.com/2013/03/02/politics/treasurer-for-fort-kent-representatives-campaign-charged-with-filing-false-campaign-report/
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"Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts"

Attempted reply to Secular Advocate at http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/30/religious-fundamentalism-categorised-mental-illness-cured-_n_3359267.html  :

This Website says Stalin lost his faith after reading  "The Origin of Species" like a lot of eugenicistshttp://www.darwinistdictators.com/articles/stalin.html

But Anastasia's faith says she didn't scream in vain

"They reported that Anastasia and her family, contrary to custom, fell on their knees during the prayer for the dead, and that the girls had become despondent, hopeless, and no longer sang the replies in his service. Noticing this dramatic change in their demeanor since his last visit, one priest told the other, "Something has happened to them in there.'" [46] 

"Ermakov then struggled with Anastasia, failed to stab her, and said he killed her, too, with a shot to the head. Maria's skull shows no trace of bullet wounds and it is unclear how she died. Ermakov was quite drunk during the murders and possibly his shot only creased Maria's scalp, knocking her unconscious and producing considerable blood flow, but not killing her. Then, as the bodies were taken out of the cellar room, two of the grand duchesses showed signs of life. One sat up and screamed, throwing her arm over her head, while the other, bleeding from the mouth, moaned and moved slightly. "   -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikolaevna_of_Russia



Looks like they won't post it without the links either :-/  Oops, now they have posted it11:58 PM Thursday June 13, 2013 - boy am i red faced!

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Looks like Stalin lost his faith after reading "The Origins of Species" like a lot of the era's 'men of steel' eugenicists

And according to wiki, Anastasia didn't

"They reported that Anastasia and her family, contrary to custom, fell on their knees during the prayer for the dead, and that the girls had become despondent, hopeless, and no longer sang the replies in his service. Noticing this dramatic change in their demeanor since his last visit, one priest told the other, "Something has happened to them in there.'" [46]

"Ermakov then struggled with Anastasia, failed to stab her, and said he killed her, too, with a shot to the head. Maria's skull shows no trace of bullet wounds and it is unclear how she died. Ermakov was quite drunk during the murders and possibly his shot only creased Maria's scalp, knocking her unconscious and producing considerable blood flow, but not killing her. Then, as the bodies were taken out of the cellar room, two of the grand duchesses showed signs of life. One sat up and screamed, throwing her arm over her head, while the other, bleeding from the mouth, moaned and moved slightly. "

Femme up world
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

...if you dish it out


The Portland Press Herald letter  [June12,2013] by Tina, the ED of the Maine Public Health Association proclaims disappointment for Pepe LeGovernor vetoing the right of truehearted uprightener Mainerbrainers to persecute poor people almost as much as Pontius LePage.


 Homeless Mentally Ill Persons: A bibliography review says 1986 88% of schizophrenics smoked

Rcpsych.org says highest prevalence of psychosis is in poor people.

Epa.gov's master list of mobile source (highway and non highway transportation) exhaust chemicals is over 15 pages long with more than 60 chemicals per page.

Reuters says diesel exhaust a carcinogen as toxic as mustard gas, asbestos and arsenic (and maybe old lace)

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The National Institutes of Health say benzene also accellerates immuno-deficiency

and causes NHL.


Epa.gov says acrilononitrile in the central nervous system from auto exhaust causes rapid heart beat and death + is carcinogenic.

Zuricna.com says gasoline exhaust contains formaldehyde

epa.gov says formaldehyde causes nose and throat cancer.

Oxfordjournal.org says at the turn of the century lung cancer was very rare, now it is the leading killer in the US.

Wiki says the first production of gasoline automobiles was in 1888 by Carl Benz. 


Wiki says tobacco smoking was introduced to France in 1560 by a Frenchman named: Jean Nicot  





"I've been marked once, my dear...and let me assure you, no needle shall ever touch my skin again" 

 Psych Central says schizophrenics are mutants



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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

In case your wondering why Chief Bresett stopped by...





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzbvUufPe-M


In case your wondering why Chief Bresett popped in for a chat, it was just after I had gone over to Pat's office to ask if he or Lynn knew if they were repairing a water main or something, 'cause the water pressure dropped, and the week before the water had turned tan for about an hour. Lynn came by and unscrewed the screen thing on the end of the kitchen faucet and cleaned it with an old toothbrush (which did the trick) and then she asked me if I was drying my clothes with the fan that was facing the closet in the hallway.

                        - anytime you have a problem with something like low water pressure, a rattling water heater,  or you just to find out if one of your neighbors went to the hospital it's fixed almost before you can say "creaming time!" - at these apts.

Lynn seemed upset that I was drying my clothes with the fan and not the dryer.

The winter before last I used a portable heater to heat the bedroom, and Lynn asked me to stop, mentioning that the electric bill for this apt. [which I don't pay, HUD + and I guess the apt. owners do] was more than the electric bill for the whole apt. building, meaning the water heater, furnace, washer + dryer and hallway lights.

This time she mentioned that my electric bill was more than my neighbor P.

It apparently irked her when I replied "Then we're making progress, aren't we?" [pointing out the time she mentioned the bill was even higher]

- All said and done, however, if any of you are apt. dwellers, and you wash and dry you clothes in a machine, you'll probably find that you save over $12 dollars a month like I did when I began clearing out space in my closets and hanging the clothes just out of the washing machine on coat hangers spaced about 1 inch apart,

In the winter time they dry in about a day..summer takes a little longer with the higher humidity.

And it saves a ton of electricity...dryers use more electricity than almost any other common household appliance.

But that's not why Chief Bresett stopped by.

Lynn asked me if I was on some kind of medication or something. I told her I stopped taking my meds in 2011 and that I had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

She asked me if I owned a gun.

I told her I didn't need to own a gun because  I could steal one very easily from the guy who used to park  his white pickup on Main St. with the rifle in a rack in the pickup's rear window.

And then the pawn shop is loaded with guns and ammo and it has a plate glass window...so if someone really wanted to go on a  rampage, taking their guns away probably wouldn't stop them.

she said, if I remember correctly, "You're not planning on shooting anyone are you?'

I told her no, that I fight using the truth. [which I'll have to amend now to - I try to fight using the truth - if I would like to tell the truth]

You see, in the Fall of 1980 I saw a picture Time Life Books claimed was of North Vietnamese Army trainees using ARVN POWs who were naked and had their hands tied behind their backs for bayonet practice.

That afternoon after school and football practice I went down to the river near the red maple planted the year I was born and challenged the Devil to a fight.

The Devil must have been down in Georgia or something 'cause it apparently didn't show.

I didn't mention this to Lynn, she'll read it here same as you, but I did explain to her that Pat had said a week or so before hurricane Sandy that Armageddon was coming.

"...There is more story coming out!"

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Told Percy Robin Williams was in a movie called "The Fisher King" - where he also plays a homeless man as he does in "August Rush" - who this time is on a 'delusional' mission to find the Holy Grail.

Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve were roommates when they were studying acting at Juliard.

Percy wasn't sure if his name is short for Percival, but he didn't disagree when I mentioned Arlene might be his Holy Grail.

I had thought it was Boris or one of the other knights allowed to see the Grail that had been paralyzed, but Wiki said it was the Fisher King himself who Percival healed by asking him a question.

We went to Madawaska one time this winter and Percy told me about this place on the way back where this guy who had cancer made a promise to God that if he got better he would build a prayer house.

Percy's cousin Dorothy had a friend named Bernadette who I thought I would go visit last year because I thought I might like to seduce her, er, get to know her better, and she said it was her friend Elmer Corbin's relative who had built the prayer house.

Ironic, since Bernie is a triple cancer survivor herself - without radiation or chemo. And she told me her Jesus was better than my Jesus.. go figure!

Apparently, it's Elmer's either daughters or grand daughters who own the organic produce farm that is going to operate the new Northern Girl organic vegetable food processing facility in the Empowerment Zone facilitated industrial park where Northern Maine Paving is pumping out asphalt too now.


 Oh, and here's the reply to Wardensworry's comment that at 7:58 PM Tue. June 11th, 2013 the BDN said  had to be moderated - "At least we're still the home of the brave"-  huh BDN? :



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fisher_King
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"...for your next meal..."




Posted in reply to Wardensworry's ~ 8:30 AM Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 comment on the Bangor Daily News story "Bangor City Council Outlaws 'aggressive' Panhandling" by Nick McRea:

"I thought AUTUMN RUSH was a great movie...maybe a different approach is needed. "


                                                 Is a chrome horse similar to a pale horse?


"August Rush" movie starring Robin Williams from Wiki

"August Rush" DVD used - "very good condition"  Amazon $.01 + $3.99 S+H June 11, 2013

"August Rush" streamed video Amazon $2.99 to rent for 48 hours, $7.99 to buy

If you ever become homeless or your water gets shut off Washington State Department of Health says to add 3 drops of chlorine to each liter or quart of water to make it potable.

Treating Water with a 5-6 Percent Liquid Chlorine Bleach Solution

Volume of Water to be TreatedTreating Clear/Cloudy Water:
Bleach Solution to Add		Treating Cloudy, Very Cold, or Surface Water: Bleach Solution to Add
1 quart/1 liter3 drops5 drops
1/2 gallon/2 quarts/2 liters5 drops10 drops
1 gallon1/8 teaspoon1/4 teaspoon
5 gallons 1/2 teaspoon1 teaspoon
10 gallons1 teaspoon2 teaspoons

.....Water Purification :: Washington State Dept. of Health





...If you really would like to help someone asking for money on the streets, you might want to give them an inexpensive musical instrument.

...You may not believe it at first, but people actually enjoy giving some cash, food and/or mylar emergency blankets to someone actually doing something instead of just unintentionally making people feel guilty.

You could also look up and print out a list of jokes like these from duckster.com on the internet for prospective buskers to tell while entertaining as well.

Sock puppets make great punch line deliverers too.

Opening that first dumpster lid and finding  that first pizza behind  Little Caesar's across from the K-Mart on 9th St. North in St. Pete after losing my efficiency - when the day labor work shut down for Christmas 1990 - was one of the most liberating experiences I've ever felt or heard anyone describe.

My only regret is that I had a mandolin with a broken neck which the pawn shop on Central Ave. charged $80 for (might have been able to pay the rent if i hadn't bought it ) and i couldn't work up the courage to go and play it at the intersection where the Frontage road that passes in front of K-Mart (now Sears-after K-Mart kicked my friend Jackie - who was like James Bond, Jessie from Toy Story, Margeurite from The Lost World and Emily Dickenson rolled into one - out from sitting on the bench in front of the old Kash N Karry) intersected with Gandy Blvd.

I soon found that I had stumbled into one of my favorite novels of all time - Cannery Row by John Steinbeck - when I met James who I later discovered was encamped only about 50 ' away from my tent in the Gandy median strip.

James' friend who told me everyone called him "Whiskey Bill" was and probably still is legendary throughout the greater Pinellas County Jail jurisdiction - only you'll have to inquire using the cognomen "Lysol Bill"

James didn't say when he had served on the US Navy aircraft carrier as a cook, but it was probably during the Vietnam war. He had run a company and said, if memory serves, that he had been sent to prison for some kind of fraudulent activity involved with his company, and when he got out he started living on the streets.

Bill told me one time that it was perfectly healthy to drink Lysol, explaining the active ingredients in it, because he had been to medical school before he entered WWII  where, like Kurt Vonnegut Jr., he was also an Army scout working behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge. But he added: "The Army gave me a dishonorable discharge because I used to get drunk with the Germans"

"Litlle Billy" was the misnomer of a quite handsome and healthy appearing young man who camped with James and Bill now and then in the lot that used to be next to the Kash N Karry, which is now a U-Store It.

Kash N Karry decided to do a promotion where if you had to wait in line behind 3 people, your groceries would be free. So Billy loaded up his cart with MD and steaks, waited untill a line at the register filled up during peak hours, then wheeled his cart out the door.

One of the baggers followed him out and confronted him in the lot next door. Billy pulled a knife, the bagger went back and called the cops, and since this narrative is related second hand from James, you'll have to ask him whether they got to keep the steaks and vino.

James eventually mentioned years later that Billy had moved back up to I guess the Carolinas, got married and became rather successful, by the usual Amerimammon standards.


James introduced me one day to a very likeable young man who's name allegedly was Danny. He had a Toyota He'd park at the dog track at night and told me to come visit him some time. " I'm at light pole 89." [I think that was the one - it would have put him in the Gandy median East of 9th St, and just East of the pond there. He used to get by picking up discarded betting slips which sometimes would be winners betters didn't know they had won, but eventually the dog track told him to stop.
KVAW.com mentions giving people "Blessings Bags":
"Lovely idea! I might also include a Mylar emergency blanket, which is inexpensive and compact."
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http://www.ducksters.com/jokesforkids/food.php

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