Glenn Beck & the 9/12 Project
The real travesty of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 project is that it is based on the rants, raves, and delusions of an LDS lunatic. That lunatic and his virus of vitriol for America is the foundation of Beck’s lunacy. You can read all about it here. Then tell me again how the Christian Nationalist Party (formerly the Republican Party) isn’t a threat to the Constitution! The danger isn’t non-belief, it’s belief in myth!
September 17, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Why would I take anything Glen Beck said seriously anyway?
If they were honest, they would call themselves that or something like that. They’re not.
September 19, 2009 at 7:10 am
Great show last night, RJ and David 2! Great editorial. And nice hearing from David 2′s mom.
And thanks for talking about the infrastructure. Its importance is so overlooked. I particularly appreciated the comments about mass transit and almost called in about that but the show was ending so I didn’t.
Our local transit is so horrendous that it’s gotten dangerous to ride. They pack people standing 2 or 3 deep and they’re eliminating bus stops left and right. Even mid-city, there are places you now have to walk like a quarter mile. Which isn’t too bad now but will be in the snow and ice this winter and is in summer if there’s construction. Not too mention the hardship on the disabled, elderly and moms with strollers. Anyone with heavy packages really and a lot of people rely on the bus to get their groceries.
There is a handicapped bus service but the woman in charge of it routinely denies applications. I was denied and appealed it all the way up their chain of command last winter. My orthopedic specialist recommended it. So did the sleazy doctor they make you go to initially. The final appeal step is to have the Visiting Nurse Association assess the disability. It is generally understood that they follow this recommendation. Well, the physical therapist came out to my house and did all kinds of tests neither doctor had, including for balance, and recommended me for the service.
Instead of following the recommendation, they gave me bullshit. They’d drive me only to the regular bus stop and that only in bad weather, which you have to know the night before since you have to order before 5 pm the previous day. They wouldn’t wait for the regular bus so, if it didn’t show up, and that’s often the case, I’d be stranded in a snow storm. Not to mention, they charge twice as much for the handicapped service as they do the regular route and would be expecting me to pay for both under this scenario. What a scam. There was one time last winter when I went to work only to have it snow and, because I can’t lift my feet and balance enough, I only got over snowbanks built up during the day because of a gentleman that off the bus with me and saw me struggling and failing to get over it.
I lived in Denver for nine years. Other than that, I’ve been using this transit system since the mid-60′s when I was bussed across the city in elementary school because I was in AP (’60′s version of gifted/talented) program. Since I graduated high school in 1976 and don’t drive, they’ve been my main transportation.
However, needless to say, I’m disgusted and, for safety’s sake, I borrowed against my pension and bought my daughter a car after the appeals ran out. I can ill afford the car. Obviously I should not be borrowing against my pension, especially since I retire at most in three and a half years and maybe sooner if I get too disabled to work. I’m teetering on the edge of that now. Last winter, I missed a lot of time to not being able to get to the bus stop.
I work a desk job, though, and am determined to hang in there since I’m so close to a straight pension. That kind of work ethic — work if you can instead of bumming off disability — seems widely frowned on. The bus’ attitude was you don’t qualify for the disabled bus because you’re taking the regular bus instead of sitting home wringing your hands and crying what’ll I do. That I missed over 20 days this past winter to not being able to get to the stop, that I had numerous problems on the bus because of the overcrowding and have even tripped trying to get off the bus through the throng (could not sit in the handicapped seats for people banging my bad knees or stepping on my feet even when they tried not and, believe me, there were assholes who didn’t try not to), seems not to make any difference.
So, because she had the license but not the money and I had a way to get the money but no license (and not a good idea to learn to drive when my knees give way, when there’s times I have to stand stock still for a second while walking for pain before I can move again), I dipped into my pension fund and bought my daughter a car. She pays for it by driving me where I need to go. But it breaks my heart to not be able to rely on buses that I did for over three decades.
Feel free to use any of this information if you discuss the problem again. People need to know.